We introduce a problem directly inspired by its application to DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) network design. We are given a set of demands to be carried over a netw...
Context scenarios are widely used for assessing the robustness of strategies and policies in both the private and the public sector. Royal Dutch Shell, for instance, has become re...
Problems with legal quality will not only increase effort and costs of the law enforcement organisations, but also undermines the regulating power of the legislator. Unintended us...
The Sisyphus-I initiative consists of a constraint satisfaction problem in which a group of people in a research environment must be allocated rooms. Numerous constraints are detai...
The use of threads is becoming commonplace in both sequential and parallel programs. This paper describes our design and initial experience with non-trace based performance instru...