This paper examines a network design problem that arises in the telecommunications industry. In this problem, communication between a gateway vertex and a number of demand vertice...
David Berger, Bernard Gendron, Jean-Yves Potvin, S...
Disruptions in trips can prevent vehicles from executing their schedules as planned. Mechanical failures, accidents, and traffic congestion often hinder a vehicle schedule. When a...
Jing-Quan Li, Denis Borenstein, Pitu B. Mirchandan...
We first consider so-called (1,+s)-branching programs in which along every consistent path at most s variables are tested more than once. We prove that any such program computing...
A Data Warehouse DW is a database that collects and stores data from multiple remote and heterogeneous information sources. When a query is posed, it is evaluated locally, without...
: In a database with categorical attributes, each attribute defines a partition whose classes can be regarded as natural clusters of rows. In this paper we focus on finding a parti...