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MOR
2000
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A PTAS for Minimizing the Total Weighted Completion Time on Identical Parallel Machines
We consider the problem of scheduling a set of n jobs on m identical parallel machines so as to minimize the weighted sum of job completion times. This problem is NP-hard in the s...
Martin Skutella, Gerhard J. Woeginger
CP
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
A Simple Distribution-Free Approach to the Max k-Armed Bandit Problem
The max k-armed bandit problem is a recently-introduced online optimization problem with practical applications to heuristic search. Given a set of k slot machines, each yielding p...
Matthew J. Streeter, Stephen F. Smith
DAM
1998
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The Scheduling of Maintenance Service
We study a discrete problem of scheduling activities of several types under the constraint that at most a single activity can be scheduled to any one period. Applications of such ...
Shoshana Anily, Celia A. Glass, Refael Hassin
CORR
2004
Springer
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The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robots
An optimization problem that naturally arises in the study of swarm robotics is the Freeze-Tag Problem (FTP) of how to awaken a set of "asleep" robots, by having an awak...
Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender, Sándor ...
TON
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
On burst transmission scheduling in mobile TV broadcast networks
—In mobile TV broadcast networks, the base station broadcasts TV channels in bursts such that mobile devices can receive a burst of traffic and then turn off their radio frequen...
Mohamed Hefeeda, Cheng-Hsin Hsu