Fairly rapid environmental changes call for continuous surveillance and on-line decision making. There are two main areas where IT technologies can be valuable. In this paper we pr...
The Stacker-Crane Problem (SCP) isa sequencing problem, arising inscheduling and transportation, that consists of nding the minimum cost cycle on a mixed graph with oriented arcs ...
There is a variety of applications that can benefit from the ability to find optimal or good solutions to a proposed problem automatically. The Artificial Intelligent (AI) communi...
Beyond already existing huge data volumes, e-science communities face major challenges in managing the anticipated data deluge of forthcoming projects. Community-driven data grids...
The social and economic importance of large bodies of programs and data that are potentially long-lived has attracted much attention in the commercial and research communities. Her...