Abstract. Disease processes in patients are temporal in nature and involve uncertainty. It is necessary to gain insight into these processes when aiming at improving the diagnosis,...
We study four scheduling problems involving the maximum lateness criterion and an element of batching. For all the problems that we examine, algorithms appear in the literature th...
Abstract. The utilization of pseudo-random proportional rule to balance between the exploitation and exploration of the search process was shown in Ant Colony System (ACS) algorith...
—The need for collaborative service provisioning across different providers’ domains is being addressed by Circles of Trust (CoT), whose members adhere to the same policies and...
Business workflows implemented as BPEL processes play an important role for many business applications. BPEL is used to orchestrate a series of Web service calls. Which provider ...