Motivated by applications in batch scheduling of jobs in manufacturing systems and distributed computing, we study two related problems. Given is a set of jobs {J1, . . . , Jn}, w...
High-dimensional index is one of the most challenging tasks for content-based video retrieval (CBVR). Typically, in video database, there exist two kinds of clues for query: visual...
Zhiping Shi, Qingyong Li, Zhiwei Shi, Zhongzhi Shi
Abstract. Real-world optimization problems are often subject to uncertainties, which can arise regarding stochastic model parameters, objective functions and decision variables. Th...
In this study, we compared Entailer, a computational tool that evaluates the degree to which one text is entailed by another, to a variety of other text relatedness metrics (LSA, ...
Philip M. McCarthy, Vasile Rus, Scott A. Crossley,...
The exploration problem is a central issue in mobile robotics. A complete terrain coverage is not practical if the environment is large with only a few small hotspots. This paper ...