Electronic Commerce (EC) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) are fundamental strategic concepts when businesses are forging links with their suppliers and customers. This article an...
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...
In this paper we study various chain codes, which are representations of binary image contours, in terms of their ability to compress in the best way the contour information using...
Abstract. Peptide mass fingerprinting is a technique to identify a protein from its fragment masses obtained by mass spectrometry after enzymatic digestion. Recently, much attentio...
Supply chain formation presents difficult coordination issues for distributed negotiation protocols. Agents must simultaneously negotiate production relationships at multiple lev...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman, Fredrik Ygge