One of the crucial elements in the Internet’s success is its ability to adequately control congestion. This paper defines and solves several optimization problems related to In...
Richard M. Karp, Elias Koutsoupias, Christos H. Pa...
Abstract-- In many real-world scenarios, in contrast to standard benchmark optimization problems, we may face some uncertainties regarding the objective function. One source of the...
The steadily increasing competition of internet web sites makes it both more difficult and more important to attract and retain users. However, it is not always possible to determ...
—In this paper we present a multi-agent search technique to face the NP-hard single machine total weighted tardiness scheduling problem in presence of sequence-dependent setup ti...
Davide Anghinolfi, Antonio Boccalatte, Alberto Gro...
This paper examines the role of design concepts in a modus operandi as opposed to a modus operatum, which is how their generation, as it unfolds over time, is perceived by someone...