Online mechanism design (MD) considers the problem of providing incentives to implement desired system-wide outcomes in systems with self-interested agents that arrive and depart ...
Unpredictability in the running time of complete search procedures can often be explained by the phenomenon of "heavy-tailed cost distributions", meaning that at any tim...
Both the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community and the Operations Research (OR) community are interested in developing techniques for solving hard combinatorial problems. OR has ...
Using an adequate representation is often the key to solve complex problems in Artificial Intelligence. Hierarchical shape representations are very convenient in domains -such as ...
This paper presents a practical undertaking to solve an industry-specific problem of facility expansion through relocation of an existing production facility to a proposed new fac...