In open systems where the components, i.e. the agents and the resources, may be unknown at design time, or in dynamic and self-organizing systems evolving with time, there is a ne...
The success of supply chains depends on the match between the requirements and offerings that deliver the services. It can be ensured by separating requirements from the means of ...
In this paper, we show how the dynamics of Q-learning can be visualized and analyzed from a perspective of Evolutionary Dynamics (ED). More specifically, we show how ED can be use...
Advances in Grid technology enable the deployment of data-intensive distributed applications, which require moving Terabytes or even Petabytes of data between data banks. The curr...
Silvia M. Figueira, Sumit Naiksatam, Howard J. Coh...
Distributed databases operating over wide-area networks such as the Internet, must deal with the unpredictable nature of the performance of communication. The response times of acc...
Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Anthony Toma...