—Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is a novel meta-heuristic algorithm for the approximate solution of combinatorial optimization problems that has been inspired by the for...
— Rapid-deployment mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are frequently characterized by common overarching mission objectives which make it reasonable to expect some degree of coopera...
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Many agents are fielded within environments requiring modeling traditional organizational structures such as military hierarchies and corporations, with their associated authority...
Marcus J. Huber, Sanjeev Kumar, David McGee, Sean ...
In a facility with front room and back room operations, it is useful to switch workers between the rooms in order to cope with changing customer demand. Assuming stochastic custome...