Recent work has shown the promise in using local-search “probes” as a basis for directing a backtracking-based refinement search. In this approach, the decision about the next...
Alexander Nareyek, Stephen F. Smith, Christian M. ...
Abstract. The emergence of complex network structures of relationships between autonomous agents occurs in a wide range of distributed systems. Many researchers have proposed model...
In this paper we describe IPSS (Integrated Planning and Scheduling System), a domain independent solver that integrates an AI heuristic planner, that synthesizes courses of actions...
Temporal reasoning is an important task in many areas of computer science including planning, scheduling, temporal databases and instruction optimisation for compilers. Given a kno...
Matthew Beaumont, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar, Mic...
Abstract. This is just a glimpse to the fruitful and constant preoccupation of computer science to try to get inspired by biology, at various levels. Besides briefly discussing th...