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During the last decade, many novel approaches have been considered for dealing with computationally difficult discrete optimization problems. Such approaches include interior point methods, semidefinite programming techniques, and global optimization. More efficient computational algorithms have been developed and larger problem instances of hard discrete problems have been solved. This progress is due in part to these novel approaches, but also to new computing facilities and massive parallelism. This volume contains the papers presented at the workshop on ''Novel Approaches to Hard Discrete Optimization''. The articles cover a spectrum of issues regarding computationally hard discrete problems.
This is a supplementary volume to the major three-volume Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization set. It can also be regarded as a stand-alone volume presenting chapters dealing with various aspects of the subject in a self-contained way.
A cooperative system is defined to be multiple dynamic entities that share information or tasks to accomplish a common, though perhaps not singular, objective. Examples of cooperative control systems might include: robots operating within a manufacturing cell, unmanned aircraft in search and rescue operations or military surveillance and attack missions, arrays of micro satellites that form a distributed large aperture radar, employees operating within an organization, and software agents. The term entity is most often associated with vehicles capable of physical motion such as robots, automobiles, ships, and aircraft, but the definition extends to any entity concept that exhibits a time dep...
Over the past several years, cooperative control and optimization has un questionably been established as one of the most important areas of research in the military sciences. Even so, cooperative control and optimization tran scends the military in its scope -having become quite relevant to a broad class of systems with many exciting, commercial, applications. One reason for all the excitement is that research has been so incredibly diverse -spanning many scientific and engineering disciplines. This latest volume in the Cooperative Systems book series clearly illustrates this trend towards diversity and creative thought. And no wonder, cooperative systems are among the hardest systems contr...
Welcome to Zhangjiajie for the 3rd International Conference on Computer Network and Mobile Computing (ICCNMC 2005). We are currently witnessing a proliferation in mobile/wireless technologies and applications. However, these new technologies have ushered in unprecedented challenges for the research community across the range of networking, mobile computing, network security and wireless web applications, and optical network topics. ICCNMC 2005 was sponsored by the China Computer Federation, in cooperation with the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. The objective of this conference was to address and capture highly innovative and stateof-the-art resear...
Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th AnnualInternational Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, andApplications, WASA 2010, held in Beijing, China, in August 2010. The 19 revised full papers and 10 revised short papers presentedtogether with 18 papers from 4 workshops were carefully reviewed andselected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topicasections on topology control and coverage, theoretical foundations, energy-aware algorithms and protocol design, wireless sensor networksand applications, applications and experimentation, scheduling andchannel assignment, coding, information theory and security, security ofwireless and ad-hoc networks, data management and network control inwireless networks, radar and sonar sensor networks, as well ascompressive sensing for communications and networking.
During the last decades, considerable progress has been observed in all aspects regarding the study of cooperative systems including modeling of cooperative systems, resource allocation, discrete event driven dynamical control, continuous and hybrid dynamical control, and theory of the interaction of information, control, and hierarchy. Solution methods have been proposed using control and optimization approaches, emergent rule based techniques, game theoretic and team theoretic approaches. Measures of performance have been suggested that include the effects of hierarchies and information structures on solutions, performance bounds, concepts of convergence and stability, and problem complexi...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, MSN 2005, held in Wuhan, China in December 2005. The volume also contains 12 papers of the MSN workshop on Modeling and the Security in the Next Generation Mobile Information Systems (MSNG 2005). The 112 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 512 submissions. The papers address all current topical areas in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks such as network architecture and protocols, software platforms and development tools, self-organization and synchronization, routing and data dissemination, failure resilience and fault isolation, energy management, data, information, and signal processing, security and privacy, network planning, provisioning, and deployment, network modeling and performance evaluation, developments and applications, as well as integration with other systems.
This book gathers high-quality research papers presented at the First International Conference, ICSC 2019, organised by THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology, Tehri, India, from 20 to 21 April 2019. The book is divided into two major sections – Intelligent Computing and Smart Communication. Some of the areas covered are Parallel and Distributed Systems, Web Services, Databases and Data Mining Applications, Feature Selection and Feature Extraction, High-Performance Data Mining Algorithms, Knowledge Discovery, Communication Protocols and Architectures, High-speed Communication, High-Voltage Insulation Technologies, Fault Detection and Protection, Power System Analysis, Embedded Systems, Architectures, Electronics in Renewable Energy, CAD for VLSI, Green Electronics, Signal and Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Analysis, Multi-Resolution Analysis and Wavelets, 3D and Stereo Imaging, and Neural Networks.