Future applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) especially in military missions require the operation of UAVs with a high level of autonomy. Autonomous UAVs could be develo...
Since critical socio-technical systems include people interacting with equipments in workplaces, their intrinsic reliability problems have been concerned with both these two "...
Business processes are the core assets of enterprises. They turn the business potential into actual competitiveness on the market. To face the challenges posed by today's cha...
Birgit Burmeister, M. Arnold, Felicia Copaciu, Gio...
The Aero Repair and Overhaul industry is facing an increasing challenge of prediction and scheduling of engine overhauls to remain competitive in a complex business arena. An appr...
Armin Stranjak, Partha Sarathi Dutta, Mark Ebden, ...
Security at major locations of economic or political importance is a key concern around the world, particularly given the threat of terrorism. Limited security resources prevent f...
James Pita, Manish Jain, Janusz Marecki, Fernando ...
The rapidly rising cost and environmental impact of energy consumption in data centers has become a multi-billion dollar concern globally. In response, the IT Industry is actively...
Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Charles Lefurgy,...
We present an application of a multi-agent cooperative search approach to the problem of optimizing gas pipeline operations, i.e. finding control parameters for a gas transmission...
This paper describes an agent-based platform for the allocation of loads in distributed transportation logistics, developed as a collaboration between CWI, Dutch National Center f...