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ICAC
2005
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
The Case for Automated Planning in Autonomic Computing
Computing systems have become so complex that the IT industry recognizes the necessity of deliberative methods to make these systems self-configuring, self-healing, selfoptimizin...
Biplav Srivastava, Subbarao Kambhampati
ATAL
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Towards Automated Procurement via Agent-Aware Negotiation Support
Negotiation events in industrial procurement involving multiple, highly customisable goods pose serious challenges to buying agents when trying to determine the best set of provid...
Andrea Giovannucci, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguil...
EUROPAR
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Two Dimensional Airfoil Optimisation Using CFD in a Grid Computing Environment
In this paper, a two-dimensional airfoil shape optimisation problem is investigated using CFD within a grid computing environment (GCE) implemented in Matlab. The feature-based par...
Wenbin Song, Andy J. Keane, M. Hakki Eres, Graeme ...
PPSN
1998
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Integrated Facility Design Using an Evolutionary Approach with a Subordinate Network Algorithm
The facility design problem is a common one in manufacturing and service industries and has been studied extensively in the literature. However, restrictions on the scope of the de...
Bryan A. Norman, Alice E. Smith, Rifat Aykut Arapo...
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CHI
1997
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Social Trends and Product Opportunities: Philips' Vision of the Future Project
This paper describes a project that was carried out by Philips Corporate Design (PCD) to explore ideas for products and services, which could be part of our future in the year 200...
Robert Lambourne, Khodi Feiz, Bertrand Rigot