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SCHEDULING
2008
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Batch scheduling of step deteriorating jobs
In this paper we consider the problem of scheduling n jobs on a single machine, where the jobs are processed in batches and the processing time of each job is a step function depe...
M. S. Barketau, T. C. Edwin Cheng, C. T. Ng, Vladi...
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Randomised Variable Neighbourhood Search for Multi Objective Optimisation
Various local search approaches have recently been applied to machine scheduling problems under multiple objectives. Their foremost consideration is the identification of the set ...
Martin Josef Geiger
CPAIOR
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Global Constraint for Total Weighted Completion Time
We introduce a novel global constraint for the total weighted completion time of activities on a single unary capacity resource. For propagating the constraint, an O(n4 ) algorithm...
András Kovács, J. Christopher Beck
ICML
2002
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Hierarchically Optimal Average Reward Reinforcement Learning
Two notions of optimality have been explored in previous work on hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL): hierarchical optimality, or the optimal policy in the space defined by ...
Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Sridhar Mahadevan
ICALP
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Vertex Cover in Graphs with Locally Few Colors
In [13], Erd˝os et al. defined the local chromatic number of a graph as the minimum number of colors that must appear within distance 1 of a vertex. For any ∆ ≥ 2, there are ...
Fabian Kuhn, Monaldo Mastrolilli