The notion of service enjoys increasing popularity as a means for structuring complex distributed systems. Most definitions of the term service, however, refer only to syntactic l...
: This paper addresses the optimization of a dynamic Traveling Salesman Problem using the Ant Colony Optimization algorithm. Ants are social insects with limited skills that live i...
A class of one-dimensional convolutional codes will be presented. They are all MDS codes, i. e., have the largest distance among all one-dimensional codes of the same length n and...
Several logical languages have been considered in AI for encoding compactly preference relations over a set of alternatives. In this paper, we analyze both the expressiveness and ...
The estimation of productivity rates in cyclic construction processes is a difficult, but essential task in the planning of construction projects. The conventional method--a calcu...