This paper describes a Web-based query system for semantically heterogeneous geospatial data. Our goal is to provide DBMS type query capabilities to a proposed statewide land info...
Nancy Wiegand, Naijun Zhou, Stephen J. Ventura, Is...
Simulation optimization can be defined as the process of finding the best input variable values from among all possibilities without explicitly evaluating each possibility. The ob...
Abstract. We study the decision theory of a maximally risk-averse investor — one whose objective, in the face of stochastic uncertainties, is to minimize the probability of ever ...
Noam Berger, Nevin Kapur, Leonard J. Schulman, Vij...
Two-dimensional phase unwrapping is the problem of deducing unambiguous "phase" from values known only modulo 2. Many authors agree that the objective of phase unwrappin...
We study a variant of classical scheduling, which is called scheduling with “end of sequence” information. It is known in advance that the last job has the longest processing ...