A pattern database (PDB) is a heuristic function implemented as a lookup table that stores the lengths of optimal solutions for subproblem instances. Standard PDBs have a distinct...
Ariel Felner, Richard E. Korf, Ram Meshulam, Rober...
Companies such as Zara and World Co. have recently implemented novel product development processes and supply chain architectures enabling them to make more product design and ass...
We consider the problem of off-line throughput maximization for job scheduling on one or more machines, where each job has a release time, a deadline and a profit. Most of the ver...
Tabletop groupware systems have natural advantages for collaboration, but they present a challenge for application designers because shared work and interaction progress in differe...
Abstract Existing solutions to the automated physical design problem in database systems attempt to minimize execution costs of input workloads for a given storage constraint. In t...