Multi-attribute auctions play a very important role in our economy: (i) they are widely used in industry procurement; (ii) many markets for services are organized in a form reminiscent of private multi-attribute auctions; (iii) recently many Internetbased markets adopted multi-attribute structure. Multi-attribute auctions differ from standard low price auctions in that (a) a buyer chooses a win...

Web service location allocation problem is an important problem in the modern IT industry. In this paper, the two major objectives, i.e. deployment cost and network latency, are considered simultaneously. In order to solve this new multi-objective problem effectively, we adopted the framework of binary Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) due to its efficacy that has been demonstrated in many opti...

Multi criteria decision making (MCDM) methods like analytic hierarchy process, ELECTRE and multi-attribute utility theory are critically studied. They have irregularities in terms of the reliability of ranking of the best alternatives. The Routing Decision Support (RDS) algorithm is trying to improve some of their deficiencies. This paper gives a mathematical verification that the RDS algorithm...

Image retrieval and ranking based on the multi-attribute queries is beneficial to various real world applications. Traditional methods on this problem often utilize intermediate representations generated by attribute classifiers to describe the images, and then the images in the database are sorted according to their similarities to the query. However, such a scheme has two main challenges: 1) ...

Cipher-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) focus on the problem of access control, and keyword-based searchable encryption scheme focus on the problem of finding the files that the user interested in the cloud storage quickly. To design a searchable and attribute-based encryption scheme is a new challenge. In this paper, we propose an efficiently multi-user searchable attribute-based enc...

This study develops a procedure for performing multi-attribute decision-making ship structural design of multi-purpose ship. The already designed is further structurally to comply with the requirements Classification Societies. hull and components are verified against yielding, buckling, ultimate strength. Based on limit state (ULS), first order reliability method (FORM) employed analyse risk i...

Evolutionary computation can successfully create control policies for single-agent continuous control problems. This paper extends single-agent evolutionary computation to multi-agent systems, where a large collection of agents strives to maximize a global fitness evaluation function that rates the performance of the entire system. This problem is solved in a distributed manner, where each agen...

A framework for a multi-attribute multi-source data fusion is described. Uncertainty of data is modeled by fuzzy sets. The problem is considered on a general level. Credibility of sources, compatibility of data, as well as their reasonableness, are taken into consideration. The proposed method is illustrated by an example.