We describe the problem of scheduling the television broadcasts of the U.S. National Football League (NFL). Unlike traditional round-robin tournament scheduling, the NFL problem i...
Abstract—We are developing a concurrent, agent-based approach to complex systems simulation as part of the CoSMoS project. In such simulations an agent’s behaviour can typicall...
Acting in a dynamic environment is a complex task that requires several issues to be investigated, with the aim of controlling the associated search complexity. In this paper, a l...
Time is a crucial variable in planning and often requires special attention since it introduces a specific structure along with additional complexity, especially in the case of dec...
Currently Configuration Management (CM) tool and Process Management (PM) tool are both largely applied in software organizations. However, neither of them can effectively support ...