: We initiate the study of a new measure of approximation. This measure compares the performance of an approximation algorithm to the random assignment algorithm. This is a useful ...
Models of forest ecosystems are needed to understand how climate and land-use change can impact biodiversity. In this paper we describe an individual-based, spatially-explicit for...
Sathish Govindarajan, Mike Dietze, Pankaj K. Agarw...
We consider a scenario where stops are to be placed along an already existing public transportation network in order to improve its attractiveness for the customers. The core probl...
We consider dual classes of geometric coverage problems, in which disks, corresponding to coverage regions of sensors, are used to cover a region or set of points in the plane. The...
Amotz Bar-Noy, Theodore Brown, Matthew P. Johnson,...
We consider the problem of scheduling n independent jobs on m identical machines that operate in parallel. Each job has a controllable processing time. The fact that the jobs have...