Vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a well-known combinatorial optimization and nonlinear programming problem seeking to service a number of customers with a fleet of vehicles. This ...
The concept of an agent has recently become important in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and its relatively youthful subfield, Distributed AI (DAI). Our aim in this paper is to poin...
The accepted view of programming, rooted in Turing’s fundamental characterization of algorithms, has had a profound impact on the theory and practice of computing with yet broad...
Most of the research, to date, on optimizing program transformations for declarative languages has focused on sequential execution strategies. In this paper, we consider a class o...
Parallel programs are difficult to write, test, and debug. This thesis explores how programmers build mental models about parallel programs, and demonstrates, through user evaluat...