This paper describes a course in innovation offered to students at the University of Magdeburg in Germany. The course is based on the premise that idea generation can be viewed as...
Graham Horton, Rene Chelvier, Stefan Werner Knoll,...
Design is a ubiquitous activity. The complexity of design problems requires communities rather than individuals to address, frame, and solve them. These design communities have to...
The main purpose of this study is to find out a good solution to the vehicle routing problem considering heterogeneous vehicles. This problem tries to solve the generation of paths...
DICE (DIstributed Constraint Environment) is a framework for the construction of distributed constraint solvers from software components in a number of predefined categories. The...
—In Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), service brokers could find many service providers which offer same function with different quality of service (QoS). Under this condition...