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2008
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Knowledge-based genetic algorithm for university course timetabling problems
This paper discusses a new solution to university course timetabling problems. The problems that belong to the NP-hard class are very difficult to solve using conventional optimiza...
Hitoshi Kanoh, Yuusuke Sakamoto
ICALP
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Content Search through Comparisons
We study the problem of navigating through a database of similar objects using comparisons. This problem is known to be strongly related to the small-world network design problem....
Amin Karbasi, Stratis Ioannidis, Laurent Massouli&...
ANOR
2007
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15 years 4 months ago
The minimum shift design problem
The min-SHIFT DESIGN problem (MSD) is an important scheduling problem that needs to be solved in many industrial contexts. The issue is to find a minimum number of shifts and the...
Luca Di Gaspero, Johannes Gärtner, Guy Kortsa...
TASE
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Mechanism Design for Single Leader Stackelberg Problems and Application to Procurement Auction Design
In this paper, we focus on mechanism design for single leader Stackelberg problems, which are a special case of hierarchical decision making problems in which a distinguished agent...
Dinesh Garg, Y. Narahari
CORR
2006
Springer
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On Conditional Branches in Optimal Search Trees
A commonly used type of search tree is the alphabetic binary tree, which uses (without loss of generality) "less than" versus "greater than or equal to" tests ...
Michael B. Baer