We describe a class of problems motivated by numerous real-world applications where there is a collection of objects that have both a cost and a value, but where some of those obj...
David L. Roberts, Charles L. Isbell, Michael L. Li...
The need to evaluate expression trees involving large objects arises in scientific computing applications such as electronic structure calculations. Often, the tree node objects a...
Chi-Chung Lam, Daniel Cociorva, Gerald Baumgartner...
We study four scheduling problems involving the maximum lateness criterion and an element of batching. For all the problems that we examine, algorithms appear in the literature th...
Background: In cancer research, most clinical variables have already been investigated and are now well established. The use of transcriptomic variables has raised two problems: r...
One common characterization of how simple hill-climbing optimization methods can fail is that they become trapped in local optima - a state where no small modi cation of the curren...