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HEURISTICS
2010
14 years 9 months ago
A shift sequence based approach for nurse scheduling and a new benchmark dataset
This paper investigates an adaptive constructive method for solving nurse rostering problems. The constraints considered in the problems are categorised into three classes: those t...
Peter Brucker, Edmund K. Burke, Timothy Curtois, R...
CORR
2010
Springer
93views Education» more  CORR 2010»
14 years 12 months ago
Parallelized Solution to Semidefinite Programmings in Quantum Complexity Theory
In this paper we present an equilibrium value based framework for solving SDPs via the multiplicative weight update method which is different from the one in Kale's thesis [K...
Xiaodi Wu
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
203views Database» more  SIGMOD 2012»
13 years 2 months ago
Optimizing index for taxonomy keyword search
Query substitution is an important problem in information retrieval. Much work focuses on how to find substitutes for any given query. In this paper, we study how to efficiently ...
Bolin Ding, Haixun Wang, Ruoming Jin, Jiawei Han, ...
NIPS
2004
15 years 1 months ago
Maximum Margin Clustering
We propose a new method for clustering based on finding maximum margin hyperplanes through data. By reformulating the problem in terms of the implied equivalence relation matrix, ...
Linli Xu, James Neufeld, Bryce Larson, Dale Schuur...
ICCAD
2002
IEEE
92views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2002»
15 years 8 months ago
ECO algorithms for removing overlaps between power rails and signal wires
Design ECO commonly happens in industry due to constraints or target changes from manufacturing, marketing, reliability, or performance. At each step, designers usually want to mo...
Hua Xiang, Kai-Yuan Chao, D. F. Wong