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AAAI
2007
15 years 9 months ago
Anytime Coordination Using Separable Bilinear Programs
Developing scalable coordination algorithms for multi-agent systems is a hard computational challenge. One useful approach, demonstrated by the Coverage Set Algorithm (CSA), explo...
Marek Petrik, Shlomo Zilberstein
WEA
2007
Springer
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16 years 1 months ago
Trunk Packing Revisited
For trunk packing problems only few approximation schemes are known, mostly designed for the European standard DIN 70020 [6] with equally sized boxes [8, 9, 11, 12]. In this paper ...
Ernst Althaus, Tobias Baumann, Elmar Schömer,...
ICML
1998
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Value Function Based Production Scheduling
Production scheduling, the problem of sequentially con guring a factory to meet forecasted demands, is a critical problem throughout the manufacturing industry. The requirement of...
Jeff G. Schneider, Justin A. Boyan, Andrew W. Moor...
TPDS
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Data Gathering with Tunable Compression in Sensor Networks
We study the problem of constructing a data gathering tree over a wireless sensor network in order to minimize the total energy for compressing and transporting information from a ...
Yang Yu, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Viktor K. Prasann...
ANOR
2004
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15 years 6 months ago
Call Center Staffing with Simulation and Cutting Plane Methods
We present an iterative cutting plane method for minimizing staffing costs in a service system subject to satisfying acceptable service level requirements over multiple time perio...
Júlíus Atlason, Marina A. Epelman, S...