—Evolutionary algorithms have been very popular optimization methods for a wide variety of applications. However, in spite of their advantages, their computational cost is still ...
Mohsen Davarynejad, Jafar Rezaei, Jos L. M. Vranck...
The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a central problem in multiagent systems. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely. Mechanism ...
Abstract. Distributedobject middleware, suchas CORBA, hides systemand network-speci c characteristics of objects behind functional interface speci cations. This simpli es developme...
Joseph P. Loyall, David E. Bakken, Richard E. Scha...
Many scheduling problems reside in uncertain and dynamic environments – tasks have a nonzero probability of failure and may need to be rescheduled. In these cases, an optimized ...
Andrew M. Sutton, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitle...
In this report we address the problem of static scheduling of realtime systems that include both hard and soft tasks. We consider systems in which both hard and soft tasks are per...