One way of suggesting that an NP problem may not be NP-complete is to show that it is in the promise class UP. We propose an analogous new method—weaker in strength of evidence ...
Given an edge- or vertex-weighted graph or digraph and a list of source-sink pairs, the minimum multicut problem consists in selecting a minimum weight set of edges or vertices wh...
Distributed Constraint Satisfaction (DCSP) has long been considered an important problem in multi-agent systems research. This is because many real-world problems can be represent...
act 11 We address the problem of designing a network built on several layers. This problem occurs in practical applications 12 but has not been studied extensively from the point o...
In this paper, we present an ant system algorithm variant designed to solve the job shop scheduling problem. The proposed approach is based on a recent biological study which showe...