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CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
DIST: a distributed spatio-temporal index structure for sensor networks
We consider the general problem of tracking moving objects in sensor networks. The specific application we consider is that of tracking a chemical plume moving over a large infra...
Anand Meka, Ambuj K. Singh
COR
2006
120views more  COR 2006»
14 years 11 months ago
A hybrid setup for a hybrid scenario: combining heuristics for the home health care problem
Home health care, i.e. visiting and nursing patients in their homes, is a growing sector in the medical service business. From a staff rostering point of view, the problem is to f...
Stefan Bertels, Torsten Fahle
FOCS
2004
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Stochastic Optimization is (Almost) as easy as Deterministic Optimization
Stochastic optimization problems attempt to model uncertainty in the data by assuming that (part of) the input is specified in terms of a probability distribution. We consider the...
David B. Shmoys, Chaitanya Swamy
SAT
2010
Springer
165views Hardware» more  SAT 2010»
14 years 9 months ago
An Empirical Study of Optimal Noise and Runtime Distributions in Local Search
This paper presents a detailed empirical study of local search for Boolean satisfiability (SAT), highlighting several interesting properties, some of which were previously unknown...
Lukas Kroc, Ashish Sabharwal, Bart Selman
GECCO
2007
Springer
180views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 5 months ago
Genetic optimization for yacht design
This paper introduces a procedure for using genetic multiobjective optimization in yacht design. The problem described consists on the optimization of a bulb shape to improve the ...
Paolo Geremia, Mauro Poian, Silvia Poles