— It is widely agreed that efficient visual search requires the integration of target-driven top-down information and image-driven bottom-up information. Yet the problem of gaze...
Multi-agent systems are an increasingly important software paradigm and in many of its applications agents cooperate to achieve a particular goal. This requires the design of effi...
Taolue Chen, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, David Parker, A...
Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) provides a framework for coordinated decision making by a team of agents. Often, during the decision making, capacity constraints on age...
We develop a hierarchical distributed production planning and control methodology, called DISCS, for a large and unstable semiconductor manufacturing process. The upper layer of D...
Abstract. In current dynamic business environment, it has been argued that certain characteristics of ad-hocism in business processes are desirable. Such business processes typical...