The dimensions of poverty are most egregious from a rural South African perspective. This study takes deeper insight into the major causes 28 years after expiry apartheid rule. It carefully examines if cause may be largely attributed to intellectual fatigue or resource constraint, whilst shedding light on other instigators poverty. To give precision this paper, it is streamlined three stricken ...

Distributed sensor resource allocation problem is an important research area of multi agent systems. In this paper we propose a model of distributed resource allocation problem for distributed sensor networks. Several models based on constraint network and another model based on concept of agency, are compared. Then, constraint network formalization which are similar to resource allocation prob...

the aim of this paper is to study a multi-product, multi-period production systems in a hybrid flow shop so that lot-sizing and scheduling will be detemined simultaneously. a new mixed-integer programming model is proposed to formulate the studied problem. the objective function in this investigation includes the total cost of production, inventory and external supply. in the case of not satisf...

Growing concern in the management of energy due to the increasing energy costs, has forced managers to optimize the amount of energy required to provide products and services. This research integrates an energy-based resource investment project-scheduling problem (RIP) under a multi-skilled structure of the resources. The proposed energy based multi skilled resource investment problem (EB-MSRIP...

The Distributed Constraint Optimization Problem (DCOP) is a fundamental formalism for multi-agent cooperation. A dedicated framework called Resource Constrained DCOP (RCDCOP) has recently been proposed. RCDCOP models objective functions and resource constraints separately. A resource constraint is an n-ary constraint that represents the limit on the number of resources of a given type available...