We consider the problem of maximizing the reliability of a series-parallel system given cost and weight constraints on the system. The number of components in each subsystem and th...
Design process excellence is considered a major differentiating factor between competing enterprises since it determines the constraints within which plant operation and supply ch...
Following from part I, which presents a retrospective on optimization, we focus here on areas that are recent active research topics and are likely to strongly influence the futur...
: As Virtual Environments applications become more complex, there is a need to interpret user interaction in terms of high-level concepts. In this paper, we investigate the relatio...
data model provides an abstract, conceptual framework; a concrete syntax is also required and XML is used for this purpose. The XML namespace mechanism serves to identify RDF Schem...