Purpose Software module clustering is one of the reverse engineering techniques, which is considered to be an effective technique for presenting software architecture and structural information. The objective of clustering software modules is to achieve minimum coupling among different clusters...

Delivery chains are concerned with the delivery of goods and services to customers within a specific time interval; this time constraint is added to the usual consumer demand for product or service quality. In this context, we address the idea of using process control tools to monitor this key...

The focus of this study is to build, from the `bottom-up´, a market with artificiallyintelligent adaptive agents based on the institutional arrangement of the ColombianForeign Exchange Market (1994-1999) in order to determine simple agents´ design,rules and interactions that are sufficient to...

This paper presents a heuristic-based approach for minimizing airlines’ schedule disruptions and operation costs associated with severe airspace flow programs. It considers primary decisions made by flight dispatchers such as flight slot substitution and rerouting outside the boundaries...

The organization of information processing resources is a central question in economic, organizational, and computational theory. Recent work by Radner (1992) and others has developed a simple theoretical framework and some useful formal mathematical results about the behavior of such systems....

This paper compares three approximation methods for solving and simulating real business cycle models: linear quadratic (including log- linear quadratic) methods, the method of parameterized expectations, and the genetic algorithm. Linear quadratic (LQ), log-linear quadratic (log- LQ) and...

Simulation models are becoming increasingly common in the analysis of critical scientific, policy, and management issues.Such models provide a way to analyze complex systems characterized by both large parameter spaces and nonlinear interactions. Unfortunately, these same characteristics make...

The focus of this study is to build, from the ‘bottom-up’, a market with artificially intelligent adaptive agents based on the institutional arrangement of the Colombian Foreign Exchange Market (1994-1999) in order to determine simple agents’ design, rules and interactions that are...