The divide-and-conquer pattern of parallelism is a powerful approach to organize parallelism on problems that are expressed naturally in a recursive way. In fact, recent tools such...
The collection of waste is a highly visible and important municipal service that involves large expenditures. Waste collection problems are, however, one of the most difficult ope...
A classifier system is a machine learning system that learns syntactically simple string rules (called classifiers) through a genetic algorithm to guide its performance in an arbi...
Mu-Chun Su, Chien-Hsing Chou, Eugene Lai, Jonathan...
We consider the problem of maximizing capacity in a queueing network with flexible servers, where the classes and servers are subject to failure. We assume that the interarrival ...
We introduce a novel global optimization method called Continuous GRASP (C-GRASP) which extends Feo and Resende’s greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP) from the dom...