We study several cost coloring problems, where we are given a graph and a cost function on the independent sets and are to find a coloring that minimizes the function costs of the...
This paper focuses on two problems related to QoS-aware I/O server placement in hierarchical Grid environments. Given a hierarchical network with requests from clients, the network...
Abstract. As an important feature of fingerprints, singular points (includingcores and deltas) not only represent the local ridge pattern characteristics, but also determine the to...
Abstract–Multimedia computing requires support for heterogeneous data types with differing storage, communication and delivery requirements. Continuous media data types such as ...
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