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AIPS
2006
14 years 11 months ago
Optimal Rectangle Packing: A Meta-CSP Approach
We present a new approach to optimal rectangle packing, an NP-complete problem that can be used to model many simple scheduling tasks. Recent attempts at incorporating artificial ...
Michael D. Moffitt, Martha E. Pollack
RTCSA
2003
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
An Approximation Algorithm for Broadcast Scheduling in Heterogeneous Clusters
Network of workstation (NOW) is a cost-effective alternative to massively parallel supercomputers. As commercially available off-theshelf processors become cheaper and faster, it...
Pangfeng Liu, Da-Wei Wang, Yi-Heng Guo
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JAIR
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Multiattribute Auctions Based on Generalized Additive Independence
We develop multiattribute auctions that accommodate generalized additive independent (GAI) preferences. We propose an iterative auction mechanism that maintains prices on potentia...
Yagil Engel, Michael P. Wellman
WINE
2010
Springer
154views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
The Good, The Bad and The Cautious: Safety Level Cooperative Games
Abstract. We study safety level coalitions in competitive games. Given a normal form game, we define a corresponding cooperative game with transferable utility, where the value of ...
Yoram Bachrach, Maria Polukarov, Nicholas R. Jenni...
PC
2008
123views Management» more  PC 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
The impact of heterogeneity on master-slave scheduling
In this paper, we assess the impact of heterogeneity on scheduling independent tasks on master-slave platforms. We assume a realistic one-port model where the master can communica...
Jean-Francois Pineau, Yves Robert, Fréd&eac...