Soft constraints are a generalization of classical constraints, where constraints and/or partial assignments are associated to preference or importance levels, and constraints are...
This paper describes some extensions added to the continuous simulation language OOCSMP to perform agent-oriented simulation. The extensions are tested by simulating the evolution...
Iterative solvers such as the Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel relaxation methods are important, but time-consuming building blocks of many scientific and engineering applications. The per...
We argue that matrix-based models are inadequate for regulating business to business (or B2B, for short) e-commerce due to the diversity, complexity and potential large number of ...
This paper presents the results of a study aimed at measuring the usefulness of presenting the results of an Information Retrieval search on WAP mobile phones. The experimentation...
Simon O. Sweeney, Fabio Crestani, Anastasios Tombr...