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ECIS
2001
14 years 11 months ago
Managing the Resourcing Process in an IT Outsourcing Environment: A Case Example
A case is described of a firm, which decided to develop a new IT system using a mixture of contract or outsourced workers and company employees. The company employees were placed ...
Sue Newell, Marward Maertens
GECCO
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
On the performance effects of unbiased module encapsulation
A recent theoretical investigation of modular representations shows that certain modularizations can introduce a distance bias into a landscape. This was a static analysis, and em...
R. Paul Wiegand, Gautham Anil, Ivan I. Garibay, Oz...
CORR
2010
Springer
125views Education» more  CORR 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Critical control of a genetic algorithm
Based on speculations coming from statistical mechanics and the conjectured existence of critical states, I propose a simple heuristic in order to control the mutation probability...
Raphaël Cerf
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Set Covering with our Eyes Closed
Given a universe U of n elements and a weighted collection S of m subsets of U, the universal set cover problem is to a-priori map each element u ∈ U to a set S(u) ∈ S contain...
Fabrizio Grandoni, Anupam Gupta, Stefano Leonardi,...
KDD
2002
ACM
125views Data Mining» more  KDD 2002»
15 years 10 months ago
Pattern discovery in sequences under a Markov assumption
In this paper we investigate the general problem of discovering recurrent patterns that are embedded in categorical sequences. An important real-world problem of this nature is mo...
Darya Chudova, Padhraic Smyth