The huge success of eBay has proven the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralized infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network ...
This paper addresses decentralized multi-project scheduling under uncertainty. The problem instance we study is the scheduling of airport ground handling services, where aircraft ...
In this paper, we study distributed failure diagnosis under k-bounded communication delay, where each local site transmits its observations to other sites immediately after each o...
Abstract— Meta-heuristic optimization approaches are commonly applied to many discrete optimization problems. Many of these optimization approaches are based on a local search op...
The no-fit polygon is a construct that can be used between pairs of shapes for fast and efficient handling of geometry within irregular two-dimensional stock cutting problems. Pre...
Edmund K. Burke, Robert S. R. Hellier, Graham Kend...