In this study we have tackled the NP-hard problem of academic class scheduling (or timetabling) at the university level. We have investigated a variety of approaches based on simu...
M. A. Saleh Elmohamed, Paul D. Coddington, Geoffre...
Application domains, such as multimedia, databases, and parallel computing, require operating system services with high performance and high functionality. Existing operating syst...
Brian N. Bershad, Craig Chambers, Susan J. Eggers,...
t] Based on the mutation matrix formalism and past statistics of genetic algorithm, a Markov Chain transition probability matrix is introduced to provide a guided search for comple...
The concept of diversity was successfully introduced for recommender-systems. By displaying results that are not only similar to a target problem but also diverse among themselves,...
: Service processes are a special type of business processes playing an increasingly important role in modern economies. They require new forms of flexibility not found in ordinary...