In this paper, we introduce a new crossover operator for the permutation representation of a GA. This new operator-Non-Wrapping Order Crossover (NWOX)--is a variation of the well-...
Abstract. Buffered coscheduling is a new methodology that can substantially increase resource utilization, improve response time, and simplify the development of the run-time suppo...
The scheduling of exams in institutions of higher education is known to be a highly constrained problem. The advent of modularity in many institutions in the UK has resulted in a s...
Snapshot Isolation is a popular and efficient protocol for concurrency control. In this paper we discuss Snapshot Isolation in view of the classical theory for transaction process...
Due to its important practical applications, temporal planning is of great research interest in artificial intelligence. Yet most of the work in this area so far is limited in at...