This paper presents the main concepts of the IST Project FAIN "Future Active IP Networks" [10], a three-year collaborative research project, whose main task is to develo...
Alex Galis, Bernhard Plattner, Jonathan M. Smith, ...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a popular technique for explorative data analysis. Usually, a fixed set of dimensions (such as time, place, etc.) is used to explore and ana...
Benjamin Leonhardi, Bernhard Mitschang, Rubé...
This paper presents the concept of Monotone Boolean Function Visual Analytics (MBFVA) and its application to the medical domain. The medical application is concerned with discover...
Boris Kovalerchuk, Florian Delizy, Logan Riggs, Ev...
This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....