Abstract. Even if the multi-agent paradigm has been evolving for fifteen years, the development of concrete methods for problem solving remains a major challenge. This paper focus...
Abstract. A dramatic increase of event monitoring capabilities by wireless sensors requires new, more sophisticated, event correlation over time and space. This new paradigm implie...
We propose a new evolutionary approach to solve the 0/1 multiple knapsack problem. We approach the problem from a new viewpoint different from traditional methods. The most remar...
The use of policy-based mechanisms significantly reduces the complexity associated with applicational development and operation. In particular, history-based policies allow the s...
Effective information retrieval in XML documents requires the user to have good knowledge of document structure and of some formal query language. XML query languages like XPath a...