We discuss a distributed transport planning problem with competitive autonomous actors that carry out time-constrained pick-up delivery orders from customers. The agents have to find conflict-free routes to execute a series of orders they have accepted. Hatzack and Nebel [2] were the first to suggest that finding such a conflict-free schedule can be reduced to solving a job shop scheduling prob...

We investigate the activity of cu nanoparticles for electrochemical reduction CO2 into methane. find that formation process affects Cu size-dependent activity. This finding traces a new route to design nanocatalysts.

oral contraceptive pills have several side effects especially on the gastrointestinal tract and liver. absorption of low dose (ld) pills by the vaginal route avoids the first pass of the steroids through these tracts and probably has fewer side effects. this study was a cohort study for evaluation of side effects and acceptability of ld pills administered by the vaginal route. in a clinical tri...

The Expected Transmission Count (ETX) metric is an advanced routing metric for finding high-throughput paths in multi-hop wireless networks. However, it has been determined that ETX is not immune to load sensitivity and route oscillations in a single radio environment. Route oscillations refer to the situation where packet transmission switches between two or more routes due to congestion. This...

In a route search over geospatial data, a user provides terms for specifying types of geographical entities that she wishes to visit. The goal is to find a route that (1) starts at a given location, (2) ends at a given location, and (3) travels via geospatial entities that are relevant to the provided search terms. Earlier work studied the problem of finding a route that is effective in the sen...

This study presents a generic ontology-based architecture using a multi-criteria decision making technique to design a personalized route planning system. The real world has become too complex to implement entirely within an information system such as geographic information system (GIS). A route planning technique is an essential geo-related decision support tool, especially in intelligent tran...

The main idea behind social participatory sensing is to leverage social networks as the underlying infrastructure for recruiting social friends to participate in a sensing campaign. Such recruitment requires the transmission of messages (i.e., tasks and contributions) between the requester and participants via routes consisting of social links. When selecting the routes, the recruitment scheme ...

In context-aware route planning, there is a set of transportation agents each with a start and destination location on a shared infrastructure. Each agent wants to find a shortest-time route plan without colliding with any of the other agents, or ending up in a deadlock situation. We present a single-agent route planning algorithm that is both optimal and conflict-free. We also present a set of...