positive effects of tourism due to social, cultural and economic interest in becoming the first industry in the world, so that many countries and areas are by creating suitable infrastructure exploitation of the benefits sought the industry. for most of these countries an important source of tourism business, income, job creation and foreign exchange is considered. for this reason, to achieve t...

In this paper, we aim to investigate the role of cooperation between low level heuristics within a hyper-heuristic framework. Since different low level heuristics have different strengths and weaknesses, we believe that cooperation can allow the strengths of one low level heuristic to compensate for the weaknesses of another. We propose an agent-based cooperative hyper-heuristic framework compo...

Groundwater is one of the most vital of all common pool resources throughout the world. More than half of groundwater is used to grow crops. This research models groundwater depletion patterns within a multiagent system framework. Irrigators are modeled as agents in the multi-agent system. The irrigation strategies adopted by the agents are investigated using game theory, under several futurist...

Deriving optimal traffic management schemes for urban road networks typically relies on the use of complex simulation tools, that capture in detail the behavior of drivers as well as their interaction with the network infrastructure. The integration of these traffic simulators within an optimization framework is an intricate task. Indeed, these simulators can be seen as stochastic nonlinear fun...