A key problem when forming effective coalitions of autonomous agents is determining the best groupings, or the optimal coalition structure, to select to achieve some goal. To this...
Talal Rahwan, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Viet Dung Dan...
To ensure the consistency of database subsystems involved in wireless communication systems, appropriate scheduled maintenance policies are necessary. However, the short-persisten...
Amine Chohra, Felicita Di Giandomenico, Stefano Po...
The hurdles in solving Constrained Optimization Problems (COP) arise from the challenge of searching a huge variable space in order to locate feasible points with acceptable solut...
Abu S. S. M. Barkat Ullah, Ruhul A. Sarker, David ...
We describe a class of problems motivated by numerous real-world applications where there is a collection of objects that have both a cost and a value, but where some of those obj...
David L. Roberts, Charles L. Isbell, Michael L. Li...
We present a novel approach for solving different design problems related to single products in multipurpose batch plants: the selection of one production line out of several avai...
Andrej Mosat, Laurent Cavin, Ulrich Fischer 0002, ...