— Defensive islanding is an efficient way to avoid catastrophic failures and wide area blackouts. Power system splitting especially for large scale power systems is a combinatori...
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It is well-known that heuristic search in ILP is prone to plateau phenomena. An explanation can be given after the work of Giordana and Saitta: the ILP covering test is NP-complete...
Continuous monitoring and diagnosis of network performance are of crucial importance for the Internet access service and virtual private network (VPN) service providers. Various o...
Yao Zhao, Zhaosheng Zhu, Yan Chen, Dan Pei, Jia Wa...
A lot of heuristic approaches have been explored in the last two decades in order to tackle large size optimization problems. These areas include parallel meta-heuristics, hybrid m...
With standard assumptions the routing and wavelength assignment problem (RWA) can be viewed as a Markov Decision Process (MDP). The problem, however, defies an exact solution bec...