The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a central problem in multiagent systems. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely. Mechanism de...
Disruptions in trips can prevent vehicles from executing their schedules as planned. Mechanical failures, accidents, and traffic congestion often hinder a vehicle schedule. When a...
Jing-Quan Li, Denis Borenstein, Pitu B. Mirchandan...
The generation of better label placement configurations in maps is a problem that comes up in automated cartographic production. The objective of a good label placement is to displ...
In this paper, we present the parallelization of tabu search on a network of workstations using PVM. Two parallelization strategies are integrated: functional decomposition strate...
Ahmad A. Al-Yamani, Sadiq M. Sait, Habib Youssef, ...
Many types of applications can benefit from flexible and open middleware. CORBA is an emerging middleware standard for Object Request Brokers (ORBs) that simplifies the developmen...
Douglas C. Schmidt, David L. Levine, Chris Clevela...