Derandomization by means of mirrored samples has been recently introduced to enhance the performances of (1, λ) and (1 + 2) Evolution-Strategies (ESs) with the aim of designing f...
The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...
Most real-world negotiation scenarios involve multiple, interdependent issues. These scenarios are specially challenging because the agents' utility functions are nonlinear, ...
Energy consumption is a major issue in dynamically reconfigurable systems because of the high power requirements during repeated configurations. Hardware designs employ low power ...
This paper addresses the concept of Blogger-Centric Contextual Advertising, which refers to the assignment of personal ads to any blog page, chosen in according to bloggers' ...