A genetic algorithms is applied to find a maximum flow from the source to sink in a weighted directed graph, where the weight associated with each edge represents its flow capacit...
A Markov Decision Process (MDP) is a general model for solving planning problems under uncertainty. It has been extended to multiobjective MDP to address multicriteria or multiagen...
Leasing computational resources for on-demand computing is now a viable option for providers of network services. Temporary spikes or lulls in demand for a service can be accommod...
Video on Demand (VoD) is a technology used to provide a number of programs to a number of users on request. In developing a VoD system, a fundamental problem is load balancing, wh...
This paper proposes an image segmentation method named iterative region growing using semantics (IRGS), which is characterized by two aspects. First, it uses graduated increased ed...