Abstract-- The success of Web Services as a tool to decouple and distribute different processes is beyond any doubt. On the one hand, their distributed nature makes them perfect to...
Graphical models are useful for capturing interdependencies of statistical variables in various fields. Estimating parameters describing sparse graphical models of stationary mul...
As an emerging trend in outsourcing, cooperative sourcing is the merging of similar processes of several firms when, for example, several banks merge their payments processing and...
Daniel Beimborn, Hermann-Josef Lamberti, Tim Weitz...
This paper uses partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP’s) as a basic framework for MultiAgent planning. We distinguish three perspectives: first one is that of a...
Bharaneedharan Rathnasabapathy, Piotr J. Gmytrasie...
The particle swarm optimization algorithm was showed to converge rapidly during the initial stages of a global search, but around global optimum, the search process will become ve...
Jing-Ru Zhang, Jun Zhang, Tat-Ming Lok, Michael R....