We consider a social network of software agents who assist each other in helping their users find information. Unlike in most previous approaches, our architecture is fully distributed and includes agents who preserve the privacy and autonomy of their users. These agents learn models of each other in terms of expertise (ability to produce correct domain answers) and sociability (ability to prod...

The bin packing structure arises in a wide range of service operational applications, where a set of items are assigned to multiple bins with fixed capacities. With random item weights, a chanceconstrained bin packing problem bounds, for each bin, the probability that the total weight of packed items exceeds the bin’s capacity. Different from the stochastic programming approaches relying on ful...

Teacher professional development, as a burgeoning term, has attracted a surge of interest in English language teaching. In second language (L2) professional development, the common orthodoxy has been one which considers teachers as that of knowledge consumers. It is commonly argued that top-down approaches to teachers’ professional development has done little to maximize teachers’ professionali...

The Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management is a complex service that should be provided with suitable and feasible technologies in developing countries like India. The collection element plays a vital role in the MSW management. Hence, the planning and design of community bins make a greater impact on the environment. In this regard, an application model called Design of Community Storage Syste...

Robotic 3D bin packing (R-3dBPP), aiming to place deformed cases in various sizes the container without fences, is a comprehensive application that includes perception, planning, execution, and hardware design. Traditional studies assume context of real space must be accurately perceived represented. However, disjunctions between planner reality are unavoidable R-3dBPP, especially with low-cost...

Wildlife Service to supply scientific information and methodologies on key environmental issues that impact fish and wildlife resources and their supporting ecosystems. Projects have been initiated in the following areas: coal extraction and conversion; power plants; mineral development; water resource analysts, including stream alterations and western water allocation; coastal ecosystems and O...

In this study, we examine the level of Internet utilization by faculty members from across disciplines in four Saudi higher education institutions: King Saud University, Imam Muhammad Bin Saud University, Prince Sultan University, and Al-Yamamah College. Results indicate that utilizing Internet technologies by faculty was primarily for teaching purposes, followed by communication, and then rese...

The bin packing optimization problem packs a set of objects into a set of bins so that the amount of wasted space is minimized The bin packing problem has many important applications These include multiprocessor scheduling resource allocation and real world planning packing routing and scheduling optimization problems The bin packing problem is NP complete Since there is therefore little hope i...