Artificial Intelligence was born in 1956 as the off-spring of the newly-created cognitivist paradigm of cognition. As such, it inherited a strong philosophical legacy of functional...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
In a pervasive computing environment, the devices are embedded in the physical world, providing services and interconnected by a communication network. Composition of these servic...
Joanna Izabela Siebert, Jiannong Cao, Long Cheng, ...
Overlay topologies are now popular with many emerging peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, to efficiently locate and retrieve information. In contrast, the focus of this work is to use ove...
t ion which is much more abstract than a place vocabulary, the kinematic topology. Kinematic topology does not define qualitative inference rules, but provides a characterization o...