This paper investigates the impact of sequential selection, a concept recently introduced for Evolution Strategies (ESs). Sequential selection performs the evaluations of the diļ¬...
In this paper we investigate two related aspects of the formalization of open interaction systems: how to specify norms, and how to enforce them by means of sanctions. The problem...
Topology-preserving geometric deformable models (TGDMs) are used to segment objects that have a known topology. Their accuracy is inherently limited, however, by the resolution of...
In recent years, the rapid growth of m-commerce is being driven by various emerging mobile applications and services. Among them, mobile information service is considered to be on...
Because they are required to support component deployment and composition, modern execution environments embody a number of common features such as dynamic linking and support for ...