For documents with complex or atypical annotations, multihierarchical structures play the role of the document tree in traditional XML documents. We define a model of overlapping...
In many application areas, for example in design or media production processes, several authors have to work cooperatively on the same project. Thereby, a frequently used data for...
Many optimisation problems contain substructures involving constraints on sequences of decision variables. Such constraints can be very complex to express with mixed integer progra...
A new approach to evolutionary computation, called Learnable Evolution Model (LEM), has been applied to the problem of optimizing tube structures of heat exchangers. In contrast t...
Today's corporations often must operate across organizational boundaries. Phenomena such as electronic commerce, extended enterprises, and the Internet stimulate cooperation ...