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WEA
2010
Springer
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16 years 1 months ago
A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for Multi-mode Resource Leveling
Resource leveling is a variant of resource-constrained project scheduling in which a non-regular objective function, the resource availability cost, is to be minimized. We present ...
Eamonn T. Coughlan, Marco E. Lübbecke, Jens S...
AAAI
2004
15 years 7 months ago
Stochastic Local Search for POMDP Controllers
The search for finite-state controllers for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) is often based on approaches like gradient ascent, attractive because of their ...
Darius Braziunas, Craig Boutilier
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
On k-optimal distributed constraint optimization algorithms: new bounds and algorithms
Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) is a promising approach to coordination, scheduling and task allocation in multi agent networks. In large-scale or low-bandwidth network...
Emma Bowring, Jonathan P. Pearce, Christopher Port...
TASE
2010
IEEE
15 years 27 days ago
Optimization of Group Elevator Scheduling With Advance Information
Group elevator scheduling has received considerable attention due to its importance to transportation efficiency for mid-rise and high-rise buildings. One important trend to improv...
Jin Sun, Qianchuan Zhao, Peter B. Luh
SIAMSC
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
New Algorithms for Optimal Online Checkpointing
Frequently, the computation of derivatives for optimizing time-dependent problems is based on the integration of the adjoint differential equation. For this purpose, the knowledge...
Philipp Stumm, Andrea Walther