Network management operations are complicated, tedious and error-prone, requiring significant human involvement and expert knowledge. In this paper, we first examine the fundament...
Xu Chen, Yun Mao, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Jacobus E. ...
This paper presents an investigation of a simple generic hyper-heuristic approach upon a set of widely used constructive heuristics (graph coloring heuristics) in timetabling. Wit...
Edmund K. Burke, Barry McCollum, Amnon Meisels, Sa...
Web/Gridservices'metadataandsemanticsarebecomingincreasingimportantforservicesharing and effective reuse. In this paper we present a generic framework for engineering and man...
Liming Chen, Nigel R. Shadbolt, Carole A. Goble, F...
The evaluation of software processes is nowadays a very important issue due to the growing interest of software companies in the improvement of the productivity and quality of del...
In many learning problems prior knowledge about pattern variations can be formalized and beneficially incorporated into the analysis system. The corresponding notion of invarianc...