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TEC
2010
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14 years 4 months ago
A Hybrid Evolutionary Approach to the Nurse Rostering Problem
Nurse rostering is a difficult search problem with many constraints. In the literature, a number of approaches have been investigated including penalty function methods to tackle t...
Ruibin Bai, Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall, Jingp...
DAGSTUHL
2006
14 years 11 months ago
A User-Oriented Approach to Music Information Retrieval
Search and retrieval of specific musical content such as emotive or sonic features has become an important aspect of Music Information Retrieval system development, but only little...
Micheline Lesaffre, Marc Leman, Jean-Pierre Marten...
ICALP
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Randomized Fast Design of Short DNA Words
We consider the problem of efficiently designing sets (codes) of equal-length DNA strings (words) that satisfy certain combinatorial constraints. This problem has numerous motivati...
Ming-Yang Kao, Manan Sanghi, Robert T. Schweller
PVLDB
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Constrained physical design tuning
Abstract Existing solutions to the automated physical design problem in database systems attempt to minimize execution costs of input workloads for a given storage constraint. In t...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Cooperative negotiation for soft real-time distributed resource allocation
In this paper we present a cooperative negotiation protocol that solves a distributed resource allocation problem while conforming to soft real-time constraints in a dynamic envir...
Roger Mailler, Victor R. Lesser, Bryan Horling