Agent-oriented programming has been motivated in part by the conception that high-level programming constructs based on common tions such as beliefs and goals provide appropriate a...
We investigate performance bounds of P2P systems by application of the law of bandwidth conservation. This approach is quite general and allows us to consider various sharing syst...
Audio search plays an important role in analyzing audio data and retrieving useful audio information. In this paper, a Partially Overlapping Block-Parallel Active Search method (P...
We study a wireless network under the 802.11 random access protocol, supporting multiple physical layer rates. Based on models for the effective packet rates achieved at the MAC ...
This paper presents an improved differential evolution (IDE) method for the solution of large-scale unit commitment (UC) problems. The objective of the proposed scheme is to determ...