Hyper-heuristics are identified as the methodologies that search the space generated by a finite set of low level heuristics for solving difficult problems. One of the iterative h...
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling real-time jobs that have multiple feasible intervals. The problem is NP-hard. We present an optimal branch-and-bound algorithm. When...
Relevance feedback (RF) and region-based image retrieval (RBIR) are two widely used methods to enhance the performance of contentbased image retrieval (CBIR) systems. In this paper...
Professional sports leagues are a major economic activity around the world. Teams and leagues do not want to waste their investments in players and structure in consequence of poo...
In wireless mobile environments, data broadcasting is an effective approach to disseminate information to mobile clients. In some applications, the access pattern of all the data...