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WSC
2008
15 years 6 months ago
Speeding up call center simulation and optimization by Markov chain uniformization
Staffing and scheduling optimization in large multiskill call centers is time-consuming, mainly because it requires lengthy simulations to evaluate performance measures and their ...
Eric Buist, Wyean Chan, Pierre L'Ecuyer
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DAGSTUHL
2004
15 years 5 months ago
The Priority R-Tree: A Practically Efficient and Worst-Case-Optimal R-Tree
We present the Priority R-tree, or PR-tree, which is the first R-tree variant that always answers a window query using O((N/B)1-1/d + T/B) I/Os, where N is the number of ddimensio...
Lars Arge, Mark de Berg, Herman J. Haverkort, Ke Y...
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ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Physical parameter optimization in swarms of ultra-low complexity agents
Physical agents (such as wheeled vehicles, UAVs, hovercraft, etc.) with simple control systems are often sensitive to changes in their physical design and control parameters. As s...
Ryan Connaughton, Paul W. Schermerhorn, Matthias S...
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HPDC
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Managing SLAs of heterogeneous workloads using dynamic application placement
In this paper we address the problem of managing heterogeneous workloads in a virtualized data center. We consider two different workloads: transactional applications and long-ru...
David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, J...
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IPPS
2000
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Using Time Skewing to Eliminate Idle Time due to Memory Bandwidth and Network Limitations
Time skewing is a compile-time optimization that can provide arbitrarily high cache hit rates for a class of iterative calculations, given a sufficient number of time steps and s...
David Wonnacott