This paper presents a novel methodology to develop scheduling algorithms. The scheduling problem is phrased as a control problem, and control-theoretical techniques are used to de...
Carlo A. Furia, Alberto Leva, Martina Maggio, Paol...
We study the problem of preemptive scheduling n jobs with given release times on m identical parallel machines. The objective is to minimize the average flow time. We show that wh...
Philippe Baptiste, Peter Brucker, Marek Chrobak, C...
Instead of selling advertisement spots one by one, some French satellite channels decided in 2002 to modify their commercial offer in order to sell packages of spots. These new g...
Consider a single machine and a set of jobs that are available for processing at time 0. Job ¡ has a processing time ¢¤£ , a due date ¥¦£ and a weight §¨£ . We consid...
We develop a new multiclass classification method that reduces the multiclass problem to a single binary classifier (SBC). Our method constructs the binary problem by embedding sm...