Collaborative operation with multiple unmanned systems has drawn significant research
attention as the technology for the operation of a single unmanned system have gradually …

As the impact and complexity of disasters, either natural or man-made, have increased,
collaborative operation of a group of unmanned vehicles attracts much attention for effective …

In order for an effective and efficient collaboration among multiple vehicles to be possible,
task allocation is essential. In general, task allocation algorithms assume constant costs and …

Rapid growth in the volume of transmitted information has lead to the emergence of new
wireless networking technologies with variable heterogeneous topologies. With limited radio …

A= dummy agent nodes Ea= set of the edges C= cost matrix Cm= modified-cost matrix D=
set of the deactivated edges NOF= number of the optimal fleet Na= number of the agents Nt …

Many network design problems arising in areas as diverse as VLSI circuit design, QoS
routing, traffic engineering, and computational sustainability require clients to be connected …

Mass deployment of fibre access networks is without doubt one of the goals of many network
operators around the globe. The Passive Optical Network has been proposed as a solution …

Many network design problems arising in areas as diverse as VLSI circuit design, QoS
routing, traffic engineering, and computational sustainability require clients to be connected …

Local search is a very effective technique to tackle combinatorial problems in multiple areas
ranging from telecommunications to transportations, and VLSI circuit design. A local search …

Optimization problems can be formulated in terms of finding and choosing a solution that
maximizes a set of criteria, among a set of candidate solutions. A local search is a heuristic …