An architecture for the integration of Grid applications with a Catallactic middleware is described, along with an analysis of issues associated with this integration in a real wo...
Liviu Joita, Omer F. Rana, Pablo Chacin, Isaac Cha...
This paper models and analyzes serial production lines with specialists at each station and a single, cross-trained floating worker who can work at any station. We formulate Marko...
Linn I. Sennott, Mark P. Van Oyen, Seyed M. R. Ira...
Peer-to-peer systems offer attractive system management properties, including the ability of components that join the network to self-organize; scalability up to tens of thousands...
The motion-planning problem, involving the computation of a collision-free path for a moving entity amidst obstacles, is a central problem in fields like Robotics and Game Design....
In this paper, we develop new heuristic procedures for the maximum diversity problem (MDP). This NPhard problem has a significant number of practical applications such as environm...