Online auctions are rapidly becoming one of the significant forms of electronic commerce for buying and selling goods and services. A good understanding of the workload of auctio...
Reinforcement techniques have been successfully used to maximise the expected cumulative reward of statistical dialogue systems. Typically, reinforcement learning is used to estim...
The problem of scheduling independent tasks on heterogeneous trees is considered. The nodes of the tree may have different processing times, and links different communication time...
In Internet audio applications, delay and delay jitter affect applications' quality of service mostly. Since packet delays are different and changing over time, the receiver ...
Planning, scheduling and effective management of contingencies are crucial for the successful management of construction projects. In this paper we explore a mathematical represen...