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CP
1998
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Optimizing with Constraints: A Case Study in Scheduling Maintenance of Electric Power Units
A well-studied problem in the electric power industry is that of optimally scheduling preventative maintenance of power generating units within a power plant. We show how these pr...
Daniel Frost, Rina Dechter
STOC
1998
ACM
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Efficient Search for Approximate Nearest Neighbor in High Dimensional Spaces
We address the problem of designing data structures that allow efficient search for approximate nearest neighbors. More specifically, given a database consisting of a set of vecto...
Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky, Yuval Rabani
CP
1997
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Distributed Partial Constraint Satisfaction Problem
Many problems in multi-agent systems can be described as distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (distributed CSPs), where the goal is to nd a set of assignments to variables ...
Katsutoshi Hirayama, Makoto Yokoo
COLT
1992
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Learning Switching Concepts
We consider learning in situations where the function used to classify examples may switch back and forth between a small number of different concepts during the course of learnin...
Avrim Blum, Prasad Chalasani
DAC
1989
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
A New Approach to the Rectilinear Steiner Tree Problem
: We discuss a new approach to constructing the rectilinear Steiner tree (RST) of a given set of points in the plane, starting from a minimum spanning tree (MST). The main idea in ...
Jan-Ming Ho, Gopalakrishnan Vijayan, C. K. Wong