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2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Knowledge-based genetic algorithm for university course timetabling problems
This paper discusses a new solution to university course timetabling problems. The problems that belong to the NP-hard class are very difficult to solve using conventional optimiza...
Hitoshi Kanoh, Yuusuke Sakamoto
ICALP
2011
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Content Search through Comparisons
We study the problem of navigating through a database of similar objects using comparisons. This problem is known to be strongly related to the small-world network design problem....
Amin Karbasi, Stratis Ioannidis, Laurent Massouli&...
ANOR
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
The minimum shift design problem
The min-SHIFT DESIGN problem (MSD) is an important scheduling problem that needs to be solved in many industrial contexts. The issue is to find a minimum number of shifts and the...
Luca Di Gaspero, Johannes Gärtner, Guy Kortsa...
TASE
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Mechanism Design for Single Leader Stackelberg Problems and Application to Procurement Auction Design
In this paper, we focus on mechanism design for single leader Stackelberg problems, which are a special case of hierarchical decision making problems in which a distinguished agent...
Dinesh Garg, Y. Narahari
CORR
2006
Springer
160views Education» more  CORR 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
On Conditional Branches in Optimal Search Trees
A commonly used type of search tree is the alphabetic binary tree, which uses (without loss of generality) "less than" versus "greater than or equal to" tests ...
Michael B. Baer