: The theme of this issue of IJCINI is on cognitive mechanisms of autonomic computing and laws of human cooperative work organization. This editorial addresses key notions of this ...
SHARK is a novel concept and middleware service for search in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Rather than flooding a network like Gnutella or imposing numerical IDs on objects like d...
In this paper, we present the parallelization of tabu search on a network of workstations using PVM. Two parallelization strategies are integrated: functional decomposition strate...
Ahmad A. Al-Yamani, Sadiq M. Sait, Habib Youssef, ...
: The task of 3D shape classification is to assign a set of unordered shapes into pre-tagged classes with class labels, and find the most suitable class for a newly given shape. In...
Zhenbao Liu, Jun Mitani, Yukio Fukui, Seiichi Nish...
We consider deployment problems where a mobile robotic network must optimize its configuration in a distributed way in order to minimize a steady-state cost function that depends ...