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ASUNAM
2010
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Assessing Expertise Awareness in Resolution Networks
Problem resolution is a key issue in the IT service industry. A large service provider handles, on daily basis, thousands of tickets that report various types of problems from its...
Yi Chen, Shu Tao, Xifeng Yan, Nikos Anerousis, Qih...
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COR
2007
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15 years 1 months ago
Job scheduling methods for reducing waiting time variance
Minimizing Waiting Time Variance (WTV) is a job scheduling problem where we schedule a batch of n jobs, for servicing on a single resource, in such a way that the variance of thei...
Nong Ye, Xueping Li, Toni Farley, Xiaoyun Xu
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TASE
2008
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Integrated Supervisory and Operational Control of a Warehouse With a Matrix-Based Approach
This paper considers a matrix-based discrete event control approach for a warehouse. The control system is organized in two modules: a dynamic model and a controller. The model pro...
Vincenzo Giordano, Jing Bing Zhang, David Naso, Fr...
INTERNET
2007
105views more  INTERNET 2007»
15 years 1 months ago
Workflow Planning on a Grid
evel of abstraction, we can represent a workflow as a directed graph with operators (or tasks) at the vertices (see Figure 1). Each operator takes inputs from data sources or from ...
Craig W. Thompson, Wing Ning Li, Zhichun Xiao
PAA
2010
15 years 7 days ago
Exploiting visual and text features for direct marketing learning in time and space constrained domains
Traditionally, direct marketing companies have relied on pre-testing to select the best offers to send to their audiences. Companies systematically dispatch the offers under consid...
Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Gio...