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WSC
2008
15 years 7 months ago
Optimizing staffing schedule in light of patient satisfaction for the whole outpatient hospital ward
The waiting time for patients in outpatient departments of hospitals is a problem throughout the world. In this context, a discrete-event-simulation model was developed to examine...
Soemon Takakuwa, Athula Wijewickrama
GECCO
2008
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
An evolutionary design technique for collective communications on optimal diameter-degree networks
Scheduling collective communications (CC) in networks based on optimal graphs and digraphs has been done with the use of the evolutionary techniques. Inter-node communication patt...
Jirí Jaros, Vaclav Dvorak
ICCAD
1998
IEEE
94views Hardware» more  ICCAD 1998»
15 years 9 months ago
Noise considerations in circuit optimization
Noise can cause digital circuits to switch incorrectly and thus produce spurious results. Noise can also have adverse power, timing and reliability e ects. Dynamic logic is partic...
Andrew R. Conn, Ruud A. Haring, Chandramouli Viswe...
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GECCO
2008
Springer
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Parsimony pressure made easy
The parsimony pressure method is perhaps the simplest and most frequently used method to control bloat in genetic programming. In this paper we first reconsider the size evolutio...
Riccardo Poli, Nicholas Freitag McPhee
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
182views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
16 years 5 months ago
Efficient set joins on similarity predicates
In this paper we present an efficient, scalable and general algorithm for performing set joins on predicates involving various similarity measures like intersect size, Jaccard-coe...
Sunita Sarawagi, Alok Kirpal