Abstract. Combinatorial auctions are an important e-commerce application where bidders can bid on combinations of items. The problem of selecting the best bids that cover all items...
In recent years there has been a movement toward deployment of distributed approaches for electronic commerce. Intelligent software agents, for instance, may be instructed to act ...
In this work, we present two new approaches based on variable neighborhood search (VNS) and ant colony optimization (ACO) for the reconstruction of cross cut shredded text documen...
Plan recognition in direct manipulation interfaces must deal with the problem that the information obtained is of low quality with respect to the plan recognition task. There are ...
In this paper, we propose and develop a novel approach to the problem of optimally managing the tax, and more generally debt, collections processes at financial institutions. Our...
Naoki Abe, Prem Melville, Cezar Pendus, Chandan K....