In the last decades, there has been an increasing interest in the connection between planning and constraint programming. Several approaches were used, leading to different forms ...
Anisotropic diffusion is a powerful method for image feature extraction in which blurring is allowed to occur except at edges. Mean field annealing (MFA) is an image optimization ...
The Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem (UFLP) is one of the most widely studied discrete location problems, whose applications arise in a variety of settings. We tackle the U...
The footwear industry's need for an automatic containment algorithm is becoming increasingly important within the manufacturing process. Irregular containers, such as hides, ...
A key problem in multi-agent systems research is identifying appropriate techniques to facilitate effective cooperation between agents. In this paper, we investigate the efficacy o...