After entering into supply contracts, firms often later renegotiate the terms of those contracts. For example, firms that obtain market demand information after signing supply c...
This paper describes a multi-objective memetic approach for solving multi-objective flexible process sequencing problems in flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs). FMS can be des...
Central to the vision of the smart grid is the deployment of smart meters that will allow autonomous software agents, representing the consumers, to optimise their use of devices ...
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Al...
The Agent-Community-based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (ACP2P) method uses agent communities to manage and look up information of interest to users. An agent works as a dele...
Abstract − A deadlock-free unsafe (DFU) state of Resource Allocation System (RAS) is deadlock-free but inevitable to enter a deadlock state. Previous research revealed that in ma...