Abstract— This paper presents a decentralized negotiation protocol for cooperative economic scheduling in a supply chain environment. For this purpose we designed autonomous agen...
Abstract. The utilization of pseudo-random proportional rule to balance between the exploitation and exploration of the search process was shown in Ant Colony System (ACS) algorith...
Abstract. In this paper an effective context-based approach for interactive similarity queries is presented. By exploiting the notion of image “context”, it is possible to asso...
Abstract. Searching specialized collections, such as biomedical literature, typically requires intimate knowledge of a specialized terminology. Hence, it can be a disappointing exp...
A pattern database (PDB) is a heuristic function in a form of a lookup table which stores the cost of optimal solutions for instances of subproblems. bproblems are generated by abs...