A heuristic technique that combines a genetic algorithm with a Tabu Search algorithm is applied to the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). The hybrid algorithm improves the result...
Uncertainty management for geometric data is currently an important problem for (extensible) databases in general and for spatial databases, image databases, and GIS in particular...
The design and development of cooperative Internet applications based on mobile agents require appropriate modelling of both the physical space where agents roam and the conceptual...
Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
We argue that a roadmap for software engineering and the Internet currently should be based on standards for complex data and document structures, like the Extensible Markup Langu...
The construction of a large class of distributed systems can be simplified by leveraging middleware, which is layered between network operating systems and application components....