In the efficient social choice problem, the goal is to assign values, subject to side constraints, to a set of variables to maximize the total utility across a population of agent...
We present a unified heuristic, which is able to solve five different variants of the vehicle routing problem: the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW), the capacit...
This paper explores in-network aggregation as a power-efficient mechanism for collecting data in wireless sensor networks. In particular, we focus on sensor network scenarios wher...
Firewall is a useful technique that ensures network security. Firewall examines network packets and determines whether to accept or deny them based on an ordered set of filters. I...
Yi Yin, Kazuaki Hida, Yoshiaki Katayama, Naohisa T...
Commercial search engines, especially meta-search engines was designed to retrieve the information by submitting users' queries to multiple conventional search engines and in...