The success of stochastic algorithms is often due to their ability to effectively amplify the performance of search heuristics. This is certainly the case with stochastic sampling ...
Path vector protocols are currently in the limelight, mainly because the inter-domain routing protocol of the Internet, BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), belongs to this class. In th...
As XML is gathering more and more importance in the field of data interchange in distributed business to business (B2B) applications, it is increasingly important to provide a for...
We shall describe connections between Petri nets, quantum physics and category theory. The view of Net theory as a kind of discrete physics has been consistently emphasized by Carl...
There are many applications of the enumeration of maps in surfaces to other areas of mathematics and the physical sciences. In particular, in quantum field theory and string theo...