Robots are complex entities that can be modeled as multi-agent systems. The multi-agent paradigm provides an integrated intelligence framework such as a path planning agent that us...
We consider the robust surgery loading problem for a hospital's operating theatre department, which concerns assigning surgeries and sufficient planned slack to operating roo...
Erwin W. Hans, Gerhard Wullink, Mark van Houdenhov...
An active XML (AXML) document contains tags representing calls to Web services. Therefore, retrieving its contents consists in materializing its data elements by invoking the embe...
The join operation, which combines tuples from multiple relations, is the most fundamental and, typically, the most expensive operation in database queries. The standard approach t...
Benjamin J. McMahan, Guoqiang Pan, Patrick Porter,...
An integrated Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) modeling framework is proposed for human decision making and planning, whose sub-modules are based on Bayesian belief network (BBN), De...