Abstract. Combinatorial problems such as scheduling, resource allocation, and configuration have many attributes that can be subject of user preferences. Traditional optimization ...
We introduce FuncICA, a new independent component analysis method for pattern discovery in inherently functional data, such as time series data. FuncICA can be considered an analo...
Motivated by the need to reason about utilities, and inspired by the success of bayesian networks in representing and reasoning about probabilities, we introduce the notion of uti...
Utilization bounds for schedulability of aperiodic tasks are new in real-time scheduling literature. All aperiodic bounds known to date apply only to independent tasks. They eithe...
Let be a preference relation on a convex set F. Necessary and sufficient conditions are given that guarantee the existence of a set {ul} of affine utility functions on F such th...