The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) is an important problem in logistics. The problem is to serve a number of customers at minimum cost without violating the cus...
Abstract. Optimization problems constrained by nonlinear partial differential equations have been the focus of intense research in scientific computing lately. Current methods for...
Ernesto E. Prudencio, Richard H. Byrd, Xiao-Chuan ...
ERA is a multi-agent oriented method for solving constraint satisfaction problems [5]. In this method, agents make decisions based on the information obtained from their environmen...
Abstract. We consider the broadcast exclusion problem: how to transmit a message over a broadcast channel shared by N = 2n users so that all but some specified coalition of k excl...
There is a close relationship between word unification and second-order unification. This similarity has been exploited for instance for proving decidability of monadic second-orde...