Infrastructure systems such as power and water supplies make up the cornerstone of modern society which is essential for the functioning of a society and its economy. They become more and more interconnected and interdependent with the development of scientific technology and social economy....

Automated negotiation through autonomous agents has become increasingly important since the advent of e-marketplace. A deadlock may arise in which both negotiators refuse to disclose more information; then, mediation is required. We propose an agent-based sealed-bid design in which both agents...

Recently, cities have become larger and larger, and more and more people are living in large cities. This phenomenon has caused serious traffic congestion which is very detrimental to the development of large cities. In this context, the subway has become the most effective solution for...

This paper proposes a new priority scheduling algorithm to maximise site revenue of session-based multi-tier Internet services in a multicluster environment. This research is part of a larger study in support of large-scale online trading systems and, as a result, this case study is chosen as a...

A novel statistical maximal information coefficient (MIC) that can detect the nonlinear relationships in large data sets was proposed by Reshef et al. (2011), with emphasis being placed on the equitability, which is a very important concept in data exploration. In this paper, an improved...

Clustering is fundamental for using big data. However, AP (affinity propagation) is not good at non-convex datasets, and the input parameter has a marked impact on DBSCAN (density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise). Moreover, new characteristics such as volume, variety,...