If there are more clusters than the ideal, each intrinsic cluster will be split into several subsets. Theoretically, this split can be arbitrary and neighboring data points have a ...
Given the pairwise affinity relations associated with a set of data items, the goal of a clustering algorithm is to automatically partition the data into a small number of homogen...
We consider the stochastic Steiner forest problem: suppose we were given a collection of Steiner forest instances, and were guaranteed that a random one of these instances would a...
This paper considers the break minimization problem in sports timetabling. The problem is to find, under a given timetable of a round-robin tournament, a home-away assignment that...
We define a new problem called the Generalized Maximum Coverage Problem (GMC). GMC is an extension of the Budgeted Maximum Coverage Problem, and it has important applications in w...