Organizational decision making often involves two decision levels. When the leader at the upper level attempts to optimize his/her objective, the follower at the lower level tries to find an optimized strategy according ...

This paper describes a distributed system of intelligent agents, MARA (Mining Association Rule Agents), for performing association rules mining over databases on behalf of a community of users. MARA can not only ...

Among artists and psychologists, there exists a widespread belief that facial attractiveness can be measured by using mathematical ratios of facial features. Accordingly, in this paper we present an automated feature-based ...

In this paper, an automatically skin cancer classification system is developed and the relationship of skin cancer image across different type of neural network are studied with different types of preprocessing.. The ...

In recent years, many researches on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been reported. Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is one form of ITS technology that not only recognizes and counts vehicles, ...

A negotiating agent engages in multi-issue bilateral negotiation in a dynamic information-rich environment. The agent strives to make informed decisions. The agent may assume that the integrity of some of its information ...

Contemporary Web-based electronic markets reflect the dominating content-based systems approach of Web 2.0. Though useful, these electronic markets are far from being believable trading places. Marketplace is where things ...