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MANSCI
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Optimizing Call Center Staffing Using Simulation and Analytic Center Cutting-Plane Methods
We consider the problem of minimizing staffing costs in an inbound call center, while maintaining an acceptable level of service in multiple time periods. The problem is complicat...
Júlíus Atlason, Marina A. Epelman, S...
VLDB
1997
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Algorithms for Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment
Selecting views to materialize is one of the most important decisions in designing a data warehouse. In this paper, we present a framework for analyzing the issues in selecting vi...
Jian Yang, Kamalakar Karlapalem, Qing Li
GECCO
2008
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Evolutionary path planner for UAVs in realistic environments
This paper presents a path planner for Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) based on Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) that can be used in realistic risky scenarios. The path returned by the a...
Jesús Manuel de la Cruz, Eva Besada-Portas,...
JAIR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Communication-Based Decomposition Mechanisms for Decentralized MDPs
Multi-agent planning in stochastic environments can be framed formally as a decentralized Markov decision problem. Many real-life distributed problems that arise in manufacturing,...
Claudia V. Goldman, Shlomo Zilberstein
CP
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Modelling CSP Solution Algorithms with Petri Decision Nets
The constraint paradigm provides powerful concepts to represent and solve different kinds of planning problems, e. g. factory scheduling. Factory scheduling is a demanding optimiz...
Stephan Pontow