We consider a single-item, periodic review inventory control problem where discrete stochastic demand must be satisfied. When shortages occur, the unmet demand must be filled by...
To keep a Graphical User Interface (GUI) responsive and active, a GUI application often has a main UI thread (or event dispatching thread) and spawns separate threads to handle le...
During the planning process, a planner may have many options for refinements to perform on the plan being developed. The planner’s efficiency depends on how it chooses which ref...
This paper extends our previous work by exploring the use of a hybrid solution method for solving the connection subgraph problem. We employ a two phase solution method, which dras...
Carla P. Gomes, Willem Jan van Hoeve, Ashish Sabha...
Search has arguably become the dominant paradigm for finding information on the World Wide Web. In order to build a successful search engine, there are a number of challenges that ...
Mehran Sahami, Vibhu O. Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, He...