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Enforced hill-climbing is an effective deterministic hillclimbing technique that deals with local optima using breadth-first search (a process called "basin flooding"). ...
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In e-commerce, for some cases the service requested by the consumer cannot be fulfilled by the producer. In such cases, service consumers and producers need to negotiate their ser...
When a switching network topology is used for constructing optical cross-connects, as in the circuit switching case, no two routes are allowed to share a link. However, if two rou...