This paper studies the opinion dynamics model recently introduced by Hegselmann and Krause: (1) each agent in a group mantains a real number describing its opinion, (2) each agent ...
The management of network services is a time- and resource- consuming activity. In this paper we discuss an organizational model that reduces the cost of managing Internet Service...
Many optimization techniques have been adopted for efficient job scheduling in grid computing, such as: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and stochastic methods. Such techni...
Renato Porfirio Ishii, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello,...
This contribution describes a general mixed-integer linear programming model based on a time-indexed formulation covering the relevant features required for the complete supply ch...
From the 1990s on, one of the most important challenges facing computer science researchers has been the design and construction of software tools to exploit Internet computing. A...