In this paper we show how the classical job-shop scheduling problem can be modeled as a special class of acyclic timed automata. Finding an optimal schedule corresponds, then, to n...
Abstract— Optimal rate allocation in a networked control system with highly limited communication resources is instrumental to achieve satisfactory overall performance. In this p...
Lei Bao, Mikael Skoglund, Carlo Fischione, Karl He...
We present an extension of sparse PCA, or sparse dictionary learning, where the sparsity patterns of all dictionary elements are structured and constrained to belong to a prespeci...
Rodolphe Jenatton, Guillaume Obozinski, Francis Ba...
People are an important part of many business processes. Current workflow-based implementations of business processes constrain users to the desktop environment; require them to p...
This paper focuses on two problems related to QoS-aware I/O server placement in hierarchical Grid environments. Given a hierarchical network with requests from clients, the network...