Calculation of object similarity, for example through a distance function, is a common part of data mining and machine learning algorithms. This calculation is crucial for efficie...
This research investigates the problem of robust static resource allocation for distributed computing systems operating under imposed Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. Often, ...
Vladimir Shestak, Jay Smith, Anthony A. Maciejewsk...
The problem of expressing I/O and side effects in functional languages is a well-established one. This paper addresses this problem from a general semantic viewpoint by giving a u...
This paper considers online stochastic reservation problems, where requests come online and must be dynamically allocated to limited resources in order to maximize profit. Multi-k...
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Russell Bent, Yannis Vergad...
The paper considers robust optimization to cope with uncertainty about the stock return process in one period option hedging problems. The robust approach relates portfolio choice ...