Infrastructure management offices plan and complete several thousand small construction projects annually. Effective planning is vital if the public and private sectors are to mai...
We present a novel method for state minimization of incompletely-specified finite state machines. Where classic methods simply minimize the number of states, ours directly addre...
Abstract. This paper deals with the problem of nurse rostering in Belgian hospitals. This is a highly constrained real world problem that was (until the results of this research we...
Edmund K. Burke, Patrick De Causmaecker, Greet Van...
In this work we extend the work of Dean, Kaelbling, Kirman and Nicholson on planning under time constraints in stochastic domains to handle more complicated scheduling problems. I...
Abstract-- In many real-world scenarios, in contrast to standard benchmark optimization problems, we may face some uncertainties regarding the objective function. One source of the...