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ICRA
2010
IEEE
130views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Multi-robot coordination with periodic connectivity
Abstract— We consider the problem of multi-robot coordination subject to constraints on the configuration. Specifically, we examine the case in which a mobile network of robots...
Geoffrey Hollinger, Sanjiv Singh
DATE
2004
IEEE
175views Hardware» more  DATE 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
Breaking Instance-Independent Symmetries in Exact Graph Coloring
Code optimization and high level synthesis can be posed as constraint satisfaction and optimization problems, such as graph coloring used in register allocation. Graph coloring is...
Arathi Ramani, Fadi A. Aloul, Igor L. Markov, Kare...
EOR
2006
129views more  EOR 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Balancing assembly lines with tabu search
Balancing assembly lines is a crucial task for manufacturing companies in order to improve productivity and minimize production costs. Despite some progress in exact methods to so...
Sophie D. Lapierre, Angel B. Ruiz, Patrick Soriano
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Beating the Random Ordering is Hard: Inapproximability of Maximum Acyclic Subgraph
We prove that approximating the Max Acyclic Subgraph problem within a factor better than 1/2 is Unique-Games hard. Specifically, for every constant ε > 0 the following holds:...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Rajsekar Manokaran, Prasad R...
CIAC
2003
Springer
98views Algorithms» more  CIAC 2003»
14 years 18 days ago
Improving Customer Proximity to Railway Stations
Abstract. We consider problems of (new) station placement along (existing) railway tracks, so as to increase the number of users. We prove that, in spite of the NP-hardness for the...
Evangelos Kranakis, Paolo Penna, Konrad Schlude, D...