IWCMC
2009
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2009
ACM
We consider the problem of scheduling emergency responders to geospatially located finite duration temporally bounded tasks. We consider two different schedulers, Greedy and Mee...
CAIP
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
Active contours, very popular in image segmentation, suffer from delicate adjustments of many parameters. We propose to carry out these adjustments using genetic algorithm. Here an...
QSIC
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
In this paper, we consider a problem that arises in black box testing: generating small test suites (i.e., sets of test cases) where the combinations that have to be covered are s...
STACS
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2005
Springer
Cycle covering is a well-studied problem in computer science. In this paper, we develop approximation algorithms for variants of cycle covering problems which bound the size and/o...
NPC
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2005
Springer
One major factor that heavily affects the performance of a content distribution network (CDN) is placement of the surrogates. Previous works take a network-centric approach and con...
CICLING
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2005
Springer
This paper presents two methods which automatically produce annotated corpora for text summarisation on the basis of human abstracts. Both methods identify a set of sentences from ...
AMOST
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Interaction testing is widely used in screening for faults. In software testing, it provides a natural mechanism for testing systems to be deployed on a variety of hardware and so...
KBSE
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Combinatorial approaches to testing are used in several fields, and have recently gained momentum in the field of software testing through software interaction testing. One-test...
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
This paper is concerned with reducing communication costs when executing distributed user tasks in a sensor network. We take a service-oriented abstraction of sensor networks, whe...
ROBOCUP
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
This article investigates the prerequisites for a global exploration strategy in an unknown environment on a virtual disaster site. Assume that a robot equipped with a laser range...