The success of the World Wide Web is boosting the development of multimedia database systems and their integration into the internet. For the documents stored and exchanged in the...
List scheduling algorithms attempt to minimize latency under resource constraints using a priority list. We propose a new heuristic that can be used in conjunction with any priori...
Philips is an electronics company which operates world wide and participates in professional as well as consumer markets. The architecture of many software intensive systems are c...
We address in this paper a problem of autonomous agents performing in a common environment where each agent has its goal to achieve before a given deadline. Agents must be able to...
It is well-known that route distance estimates are influenced by the structure of the route. In particular, the number of features along the route (e.g. landmarks) and the structu...