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ANOR
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
Towards a practical engineering tool for rostering
The profitability and morale of many organizations (such as factories, hospitals and airlines) are affected by their ability to schedule their personnel properly. Sophisticated an...
Edward P. K. Tsang, John A. Ford, Patrick Mills, R...
POPL
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A probabilistic language based upon sampling functions
As probabilistic computations play an increasing role in solving various problems, researchers have designed probabilistic languages that treat probability distributions as primit...
Sungwoo Park, Frank Pfenning, Sebastian Thrun
GECCO
2009
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Why evolution is not a good paradigm for program induction: a critique of genetic programming
We revisit the roots of Genetic Programming (i.e. Natural Evolution), and conclude that the mechanisms of the process of evolution (i.e. selection, inheritance and variation) are ...
John R. Woodward, Ruibin Bai
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IJSSOE
2010
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14 years 7 months ago
SLIM: Service Location and Invocation Middleware for Mobile Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks
One of the main obstacles to the adoption of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) outside the research community is the lack of high level mechanisms to easily program them. This probl...
Gianpaolo Cugola, Alessandro Margara
RC
2007
64views more  RC 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Unimodality, Independence Lead to NP-Hardness of Interval Probability Problems
In many real-life situations, we only have partial information about probabilities. This information is usually described by bounds on moments, on probabilities of certain events,...
Daniel Berleant, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich...