Since combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are a class of non-deterministic polynomial-time (NP)-hard problems, it is impracticable to solve them in brute-force searches, which results in high ...

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Abstract: Market-based control is a control approach that can be used to organize resource control problems by establishing an artificial market economy for the allocation of these resources. In such ...