The question of nonemptiness of the intersection of a nested sequence of closed sets is fundamental in a number of important optimization topics, including the existence of optima...
Goals are used to define the behavior of (pro-active) agents. It is our view that the goals of an agent can be seen as a knowledge base of the situations that it wants to achieve. ...
We describe a functional database language OR-SML for handling disjunctive information in database queries, and its implementation on top of Standard ML 12]. The core language has ...
This paper focuses on the application of a new ACO-based automatic programming algorithm to the classification task of data mining. This new model, called GBAP algorithm, is based ...
—The way the processes in a parallel program are scheduled on the processors of a multiprocessor system affects the performance significantly. Finding a schedule of processes to ...