because of high speed, efficiency, robustness and flexibility of multi-agent systems, in recent years there has been an increasing interest in the art of these systems. in competitive multi agent systems, a mechanism is required via which the agents can come to reach an agreement.  contract net protocols are one of the well-known negotiation protocols in multi-agent systems. in contract net pro...

A redundancy allocation problem (RAP) is a well-known NP-hard problem that involves the selection of elements and redundancy levels to maximize the system reliability under various system-level constraints. In many practical design situations, reliability apportionment is complicated because of the presence of several conflicting objectives that cannot be combined into a single-objective functi...

Abstract: Tiedemann, et al. [Proc. of WALCOM, LNCS 8973, 2015, pp.210-221] defined multiobjective online problems and the competitive analysis for multi-objective online problems and showed that (1) with respect to the worst component competitive analysis, the online algorithm reservation price policy rpp-high is best possible for the multi-objective time series search problem; (2) with respect...

We investigate a multi-commodity capacitated facility location problem involving sustainability concerns (e.g., restrained carbon emission). In addition, this incorporates complementarity demand function. show that incorporation can lead to superior decisions both analytically and computationally. The resultant formulation is 0–1 mixed-integer non-concave quadratic program with equilibrium cons...

The facility location problem is a strategic decision-making for a supply chain, which determines the profitability and sustainability of its components. This paper deals with a scenario where two supply chains, consisting of a producer, a number of distribution centers and several retailers provided with similar products, compete to maintain their market shares by opening new distribution cent...