Despite of the fact that large line segment datasets are appearing more and more frequently in numerous applications involving spatial data, such as GIS 8, 9] multimedia 6] and ev...
—Federation of geo-distributed cloud services is a trend in cloud computing which, by spanning multiple data centers at different geographical locations, can provide a cloud plat...
Yu Wu, Chuan Wu, Bo Li 0001, Linquan Zhang, Zongpe...
Social awareness is essential for effective learning. However, natural environments do not always provide optimal support for it. We analyze the potentials of Collaborative Virtua...
We model social choice problems in which self interested agents with private utility functions have to agree on values for a set of variables subject to side constraints. The goal...
This paper presents a gregarious particle swarm optimization algorithm (G-PSO) in which the particles explore the search space by aggressively scouting the local minima with the h...