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ECIS
2001
15 years 7 months ago
Managing the Resourcing Process in an IT Outsourcing Environment: A Case Example
A case is described of a firm, which decided to develop a new IT system using a mixture of contract or outsourced workers and company employees. The company employees were placed ...
Sue Newell, Marward Maertens
GECCO
2009
Springer
16 years 25 days ago
On the performance effects of unbiased module encapsulation
A recent theoretical investigation of modular representations shows that certain modularizations can introduce a distance bias into a landscape. This was a static analysis, and em...
R. Paul Wiegand, Gautham Anil, Ivan I. Garibay, Oz...
CORR
2010
Springer
125views Education» more  CORR 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Critical control of a genetic algorithm
Based on speculations coming from statistical mechanics and the conjectured existence of critical states, I propose a simple heuristic in order to control the mutation probability...
Raphaël Cerf
FOCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Set Covering with our Eyes Closed
Given a universe U of n elements and a weighted collection S of m subsets of U, the universal set cover problem is to a-priori map each element u ∈ U to a set S(u) ∈ S contain...
Fabrizio Grandoni, Anupam Gupta, Stefano Leonardi,...
KDD
2002
ACM
125views Data Mining» more  KDD 2002»
16 years 6 months ago
Pattern discovery in sequences under a Markov assumption
In this paper we investigate the general problem of discovering recurrent patterns that are embedded in categorical sequences. An important real-world problem of this nature is mo...
Darya Chudova, Padhraic Smyth