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AIR
2008
14 years 10 months ago
2008
This paper is concerned with taking an engineering approach towards the application of metaheuristic problem solving methods, i.e. heuristics that aim to solve a wide variety of p...
EOR
2006
14 years 9 months ago
2006
In this paper, we examine a multi-period capacity expansion problem for a local access telecommunications network with a tree topology. Capacity expansion is realized through the ...
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KES
2006
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
2006
Springer
We consider a novel class of applications where a set of activities conducted by a group of people over a time period needs to be planned, taking into account each member's p...
IJHPCA
2006
14 years 9 months ago
2006
In this paper, we consider the communications involved in the execution of a complex application, deployed on a heterogeneous platform. Such applications extensively use macro-com...
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SRDS
1998
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
1998
IEEE
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...