Newton’s method is a basic tool in numerical analysis and numerous applications, including operations research and data mining. We survey the history of the method, its main ide...
One of the critical problems in the call center industries is the staffing problem since they must face variable demands and because staff costs represent a major part of the cost...
Automatically acquiring control-knowledge for planning, as it is the case for Machine Learning in general, strongly depends on the training examples. In the case of planning, examp...
Clustering under constraints is a recent innovation in the artificial intelligence community that has yielded significant practical benefit. However, recent work has shown that fo...
The areas of On-Line Algorithms and Machine Learning are both concerned with problems of making decisions about the present based only on knowledge of the past. Although these area...