We consider discrete stochastic optimization problems where the objective function can only be estimated by a simulation oracle; the oracle is defined only at the discrete points....
Increasingly, applications need to be able to self-reconfigure in response to changing requirements and environmental conditions. Autonomic computing has been proposed as a means...
Andres J. Ramirez, David B. Knoester, Betty H. C. ...
We consider the problem of minimizing the total weighted completion time on identical parallel machines when jobs have stochastic processing times and may arrive over time. We give...
We propose solving continuous parametric simulation optimizations using a deterministic nonlinear optimization algorithm and sample-path simulations. The optimization problem is w...
Michael C. Ferris, Todd S. Munson, Krung Sinapirom...
Abstract. The Choice Coordination Problem with k alternatives (kCCP) was introduced by Rabin in 1982 [Rab82]. The goal is to design a wait-free protocol for n asynchronous processe...