Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) is a promising approach to coordination, scheduling and task allocation in multi agent networks. In large-scale or low-bandwidth network...
Emma Bowring, Jonathan P. Pearce, Christopher Port...
We consider a system with a dispatcher and several identical servers in parallel. Task processing times are known upon arrival. We first study the impact of the local scheduling ...
The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...
In this paper, we propose a manpower allocation model with time windows which is of practical interest to serviceman scheduling operations. Specifically, this problem originates f...
This work introduces a general mathematical framework for non-stationary fitness functions which enables the exact definition of certain problem properties. The properties' in...