The formation of fruiting bodies by myxobacteria colonies involves altruistic suicide by many individual bacteria and is thus vulnerable to exploitation by cheating mutants. We rep...
Abstract. In previous papers we proposed an algorithm for real parameter optimization called the Aggregation Pheromone System (APS). The APS replaces pheromone trails in traditiona...
A spanning tree of a graph such that each vertex in the tree has degree at most d is called a degree-constrained spanning tree. The problem of finding the degree-constrained spann...
This paper addresses distributed task allocation in complex scenarios modeled using the distributed constraint optimization problem (DCOP) formalism. We propose and evaluate a nov...
Paulo Roberto Ferreira Jr., Felipe S. Boffo, Ana L...
Investors would like to calculate profits in advance, “ex ante”, like the path of a flying ball. But income can only be given “ex post”, after the money is earned. The pro...