Many optimization techniques have been adopted for efficient job scheduling in grid computing, such as: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and stochastic methods. Such techni...
Renato Porfirio Ishii, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello,...
Creating ensembles of random but "realistic" topologies for complex systems is crucial for many tasks such as benchmark generation and algorithm analysis. In general, exp...
The Swedish Postal Services receives and distributes over 22 million pieces of mail every day. Mail transportation takes place overnight by airplanes, trains, trucks, and cars in ...
Anna Syberfeldt, Henrik Grimm, Amos Ng, Martin And...
Spring is a highly modular, distributed, object-oriented operating system. This paper describes the goals of the Spring system and provides overviews of the Spring object model, t...
James G. Mitchell, Jonathan Gibbons, Graham Hamilt...
We propose a computational model that facilitates agents in a MAS to collaboratively evolve their norms to reach the best norm conventions. Our approach borrows from the social con...