This article describes an approach to solving distributed constraint optimization problems (DCOP) with n-ary constraints. A key instance of this problem is distributed resource-constrained task scheduling, in which limited resource capacities implicitly imply n-ary relations among the start-times of the tasks. We describe ADOPT-N, an extension of ADOPT [16], a recent successful algorithm for DC...

We introduce and study category of $(m, n)$-ary hypermodules as a generalization of the category of $(m, n)$-modules as well as the category of classical modules. Also, we study various kinds of morphisms. Especially, we characterize monomorphisms and epimorphisms in this category. We will proceed to study the fundamental relation on $(m, n)$-hypermodules, as an important tool in the study of a...

This paper deals with hypergroupoids obtained from n-ary relations. We give conditions for an n-ary relation such that the hypergroupoid associated with it is a hypergroup. First we analyze this construction using a ternary relation and then we generalize it for an n-ary relation.

The growing amount of data available in modern-day datasets makes the need to efficiently search and retrieve information. To make large-scale search feasible, Distance Estimation and Subset Indexing are the main approaches. Although binary coding has been popular for implementing both techniques, n-ary coding (known as Product Quantization) is also very effective for Distance Estimation. Howev...