The problem of effectively combining multiple heuristic estimators has been studied extensively in the context of optimal planning, but not in the context of satisficing planning....
Many new multimedia applications involve dynamic multiple participants, have stringent endto-end delay requirement and consume large amount of network resources. In this paper, we...
There are several situations where applications in the cloud need to self-manage their quality attributes (QA). We posit that selfadaptation can be achieved through a market-based ...
It is well known that there cannot be a single "best" heuristic for optimal planning in general. One way of overcoming this is by combining admissible heuristics (e.g. b...
We present a multistart heuristic for the uncapacitated facility location problem, based on a very successful method we originally developed for the p-median problem. We show exte...