In this chapter we present recent contributions in the field of sequential job scheduling on network machines which work in parallel; these are subject to temporary unavailability...
Florian Diedrich, Klaus Jansen, Ulrich M. Schwarz,...
Graphs are powerful data structures that have many attractive properties for object representation. However, some basic operations are difficult to define and implement, for ins...
Miquel Ferrer, Ernest Valveny, Francesc Serratosa,...
We consider the problem of placing a set of disks in a region containing obstacles such that no two disks intersect. We are given a bounding polygon P and a set R of possibly inte...
Marc Benkert, Joachim Gudmundsson, Christian Knaue...
Top-k approximate querying on string collections is an important data analysis tool for many applications, and it has been exhaustively studied. However, the scale of the problem ...
- The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is perhaps the most famous optimization problem in the set NP-hard. Many problems that are natural applications in computer science and engin...