With the increase in world population, efficient production of food becomes an ever more important goal. One particular tasks associated with this goal is to find optimal crop planting time, considering allowed time windows and following objectives: (1) weekly harvest must not surplus available storage capacity produce waste, (2) labor force should be utilized manner. To tackle problem, we defi...

The continuous transformation of the Chinese navy into an integrated and network-centric capability requires a cooperative and distributed weapon resource management system. As one of the steps into naval information grid our objective is to develop generalized principles for grid computing that can be applied to this specific domain. To address this problem, we adopt the OGSA (Open Grid Servic...

The Weapon-Target Assignment (WTA) problem is of military importance; it computes an optimal assignment m weapons to n targets such that the expected total damage maximized (or equivalently, survival possibility minimized). WTA known be NP-complete and was commonly formulated as nonlinear models. In previous studies, largest instances could solved exactly were only moderate sizes (e.g., 80 targ...

Professional tennis organizations, such as the United States Tennis Association (USTA), the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), the International Tennis Federation (ITF), and the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), host tennis tournaments throughout the world. At these tournaments, chief umpires assign and schedule line umpires for every match. For most tournaments, they perform this task ...