Economic principles are increasingly being suggested for addressing some complex issues related to distributed resource allocation for QoS (Quality of Service) enhancement. Many p...
The current standard in governing distributed transaction termination is the so-called Two-Phase Commit protocol (2PC). The first phase of 2PC is a voting phase, where the partici...
Maha Abdallah, Rachid Guerraoui, Philippe Pucheral
A new class of evolutionary computation processes is presented, called Learnable Evolution Model or LEM. In contrast to Darwinian-type evolution that relies on mutation, recombinat...
Contextual information provides an important basis for identifying and understanding users' information needs. Our previous work in traditional information retrieval systems ...
A decision support system for the management of an intermodal container terminal is presented. Among the problems to be solved, there are the spatial allocation of containers on t...
Luca Maria Gambardella, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Mar...