We consider the global optimization problem for d-variate Lipschitz functions which, in a certain sense, do not increase too slowly in a neighborhood of the global minimizer(s). O...
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a business philosophy that has emerged and gained prominence in the field of IS in recent years. Organisations have begun to realise that...
Decision making, whether by an individual or a group, can be substantially enhanced by a "systems thinking" approach. Because groups are often challenged to justify thei...
Abstract. End System Multicasting (ESM) is fast becoming a feasible alternative to IP multicasting. ESM approaches can be broadly classified into two main categories: (i) Tree firs...
Neural-symbolic integration concerns the integration of symbolic and connectionist systems. Distributed knowledge representation is traditionally seen under a purely symbolic pers...