In this paper, an agent is defined as a triple (S, RS, LS), where S is a multi-hierarchical decision system, RS is a set of rules extracted from S defining values of its decision a...
A new approach is presented for partitioning an image database by classifying and indexing the convex hull shapes and the number of region concavities. The result is a significant...
Abstract—We study routing overhead due to location information collection and retrieval in mobile ad-hoc networks employing geographic routing with no hierarchy. We first provid...
This paper addresses the problem of data acquisition in ad hoc and sensor networks with mobile sinks and proposes a protocol based on swarm intelligence, SIMPLE, to route data in s...
The World Wide Web provides a huge distributed web database. However, information in the web database is free formatted and unorganized. Traditional keyword-based retrieval approa...
H. L. Wang, W. K. Shih, C. N. Hsu, Y. S. Chen, Y. ...