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CSC
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Efficient and Effective Practical Algorithms for the Set-Covering Problem
- The set-covering problem is an interesting problem in computational complexity theory. In [1], the setcovering problem has been proved to be NP hard and a greedy heuristic algori...
Qi Yang, Jamie McPeek, Adam Nofsinger
REFSQ
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Information Flow Between Requirement Artifacts. Results of an Empirical Study
Abstract. Requirements engineering is still an area of software engineering in which theory and practice greatly differ. This work presents the results of an empirical study of ar...
Stefan Winkler
HICSS
2009
IEEE
189views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Predicting Change: A Study of the Value Frequency Model for Change of Practice
Information systems (IS) researchers have made considerable progress on defining and formalizing structured methods to support collaborative development of information systems. Co...
Robert O. Briggs, John D. Murphy, Thomas F. Carlis...
CDC
2008
IEEE
145views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Necessary and sufficient conditions for success of the nuclear norm heuristic for rank minimization
Minimizing the rank of a matrix subject to constraints is a challenging problem that arises in many applications in control theory, machine learning, and discrete geometry. This c...
Benjamin Recht, Weiyu Xu, Babak Hassibi
SOFSEM
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
When Analysis Fails: Heuristic Mechanism Design via Self-correcting Procedures
Abstract. Computational mechanism design (CMD) seeks to understand how to design game forms that induce desirable outcomes in multiagent systems despite private information, self-i...
David C. Parkes