We consider buffer management of unit packets with deadlines for a multi-port device with reconfiguration overhead. The goal is to maximize the throughput of the device, i.e., the...
Yossi Azar, Uriel Feige, Iftah Gamzu, Thomas Mosci...
Westudyjobschedulingonprocessorscapableofrunningatvariablevoltage/speed tominimizeenergyconsumption.Eachjob ina probleminstanceisspecifiedbyitsarrivaltime and deadline, together w...
We present black-box techniques for learning how to interleave the execution of multiple heuristics in order to improve average-case performance. In our model, a user is given a s...
Matthew J. Streeter, Daniel Golovin, Stephen F. Sm...
The paper describes the architecture of Brown University’s agent, Botticelli, a finalist in the 2003 Trading Agent Competition in Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM). In TAC SCM,...
Michael Benisch, Amy R. Greenwald, Ioanna Grypari,...
Abstract. Minimizing the makespan or maximizing the minimum machine load are two of the most important and fundamental parallel machine scheduling problems. In an online scenario, ...