This paper considers a project scheduling problem with the objective of minimizing resource availability costs, taking into account a deadline for the project and precedence relat...
Abstract—MPLS recovery mechanisms are increasing in popularity because they can guarantee fast restoration and high QoS assurance. Their main advantage is that their backup paths...
Cops and Robbers is a pursuit and evasion game played on graphs that has received much attention. We consider an extension of Cops and Robbers, distance k Cops and Robbers, where t...
Anthony Bonato, Ehsan Chiniforooshan, Pawel Pralat
We consider the problem of speeding up Entity Recognition systems that exploit existing large databases of structured entities to improve extraction accuracy. These systems requir...
An instance of the classical Stable Roommates problem (sr) need not admit a stable matching. This motivates the problem of finding a matching that is “as stable as possible”, ...