Abstract Workflow scheduling is vital to simultaneously minimize execution cost and makespan for cloud platforms since data dependencies among large-scale workflow tasks problem involve interactive decision variables. So far, the cooperative coevolution approach poses competitive superiority in resolving problems by transforming original into a series of small-scale subproblems. However, static...

Abstract Many multi-objective optimization problems in reality are dynamic, requiring the algorithm to quickly track moving optima after environment changes. Therefore, response strategies often used dynamic algorithms find Pareto optimal. In this paper, we propose a hybrid prediction strategy based on classification of decision variables, which consists three steps. After detecting change, fir...

A total of 24 commercial fields of cabbages and Brussels sprouts were sampled in a grid fashion with 20-25 equally spaced cells with four plants per cell. Using this data base of 80-100 plants, we conducted computer stimulations to compare the treatment decisions that would be made for the major insect pests using published sequential sampling programs and a newly developed variable-intensity s...

We address the issue of manipulating games through communication. In the specific setting we consider (a variation of Boolean games), we assume there is some set of environment variables, the values of which are not directly accessible to players; the players have their own beliefs about these variables, and make decisions about what actions to perform based on these beliefs. The communication ...

This paper describes the submitted strategy and the methods of NUL team on NTCIR-11 QALab Center examination tasks. Our purpose of joining this task is to evaluate the entailment recognition systems which we made for RITE-VAL tasks. Our strategy is very primitive which directly convert the question to the entailment problem by simply matching the type of question answer pairs. Then, we solve th...

We give semi-decision procedures for the ground word problem of variable preserving term equation systems and term equation systems. They are natural improvements of two well known trivial semi-decision procedures. We show the correctness of our procedures.

Decision making is a complex process in which different sources of information are combined into a decision variable (DV) that guides action [1, 2]. Neurophysiological studies have typically sought insight into the dynamics of the decision-making process and its neural mechanisms through statistical analysis of large numbers of trials from sequentially recorded single neurons or small groups of...

Being able to quickly adapt to changes in the business environment has been widely acknowledged as essential for sustainable success by business leaders. Scenario planning is recognized as an effective tool used to explore ambiguous business environment dynamics over a long time horizon and identifying ways to translate uncertainty into potential future strategies. After the potential scenarios...

Issues that are related to decision making that is based on dispersed knowledge are discussed in the paper. A system, that was proposed in the article [12], is used in this paper. In the system the process of combining classifiers in coalitions is very important and negotiation is applied in the clustering process. The main aim of the article is to compare the results obtained using five differ...