Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are expected to place a considerable strain on local electricity distribution networks, requiring charging to be coordinated in order to accommoda...
Enrico H. Gerding, Valentin Robu, Sebastian Stein,...
Distributed systems can often be modeled as a collection of distributed (system) variables whose values are constrained by a set of constraints. In distributed multi-agent systems...
Wiebe van der Hoek, Cees Witteveen, Michael Wooldr...
In this paper we demonstrate how a qualitative framework for decision making can be used to model scenarios from experimental economic studies and we show how our approach explains...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Katie Atkinson, Peter Mc...
A traditional goal of Artificial Intelligence research has been a system that can read unrestricted natural language texts on a given topic, build a model of that topic and reason...
Ken Barker, Bhalchandra Agashe, Shaw Yi Chaw, Jame...
Monte Carlo methods and their subsequent simulated annealing are able to minimize general energy functions. However, the slow convergence of simulated annealing compared with more ...