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IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Waiting and Relocation Strategies in Online Stochastic Vehicle Routing
This paper considers online stochastic multiple vehicle routing with time windows in which requests arrive dynamically and the goal is to maximize the number of serviced customers...
Russell Bent, Pascal Van Hentenryck
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
A simulator to improve waiting times at a Medical Imaging Center
Medical Imaging Centers (MIC) are critical units in every hospital or medical center because they are an important step in generating a patient's diagnostic. This paper shows...
Francisco J. Ramis, Felipe F. Baesler, Edgar Berho...
TELSYS
2002
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13 years 5 months ago
Queue Lengths and Waiting Times for Multiserver Queues with Abandonment and Retrials
We consider a Markovian multiserver queueing model with time dependent parameters where waiting customers may abandon and subsequently retry. We provide simple fluid and diffusion ...
Avishai Mandelbaum, William A. Massey, Martin I. R...
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification
Data integrated from multiple sources may contain inconsistencies that violate integrity constraints. The constraint repair problem attempts to find "low cost" changes t...
Philip Bohannon, Michael Flaster, Wenfei Fan, Raje...
CERA
2004
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13 years 5 months ago
Virtual-Build-to-Order as a Mass Customization Order Fulfilment Model
: Virtual-build-to-order (VBTO) is a form of order fulfilment system in which the producer has the ability to search across the entire pipeline of finished stock, products in produ...
Philip G. Brabazon, Bart L. MacCarthy