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INFORMATICALT
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Multistage K-Means Clustering for Scenario Tree Construction
Abstract. In stochastic programming and decision analysis, an important issue consists in the approximate representation of the multidimensional stochastic underlying process in th...
Kristina Sutiene, Dalius Makackas, Henrikas Pranev...
FOCS
2004
IEEE
14 years 13 days ago
Stochastic Optimization is (Almost) as easy as Deterministic Optimization
Stochastic optimization problems attempt to model uncertainty in the data by assuming that (part of) the input is specified in terms of a probability distribution. We consider the...
David B. Shmoys, Chaitanya Swamy
ICPADS
1994
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
Stochastic Modeling of Scaled Parallel Programs
Testingthe performance scalabilityof parallelprograms can be a time consuming task, involving many performance runs for different computer configurations, processor numbers, and p...
Allen D. Malony, Vassilis Mertsiotakis, Andreas Qu...
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Improved Approximations for Multiprocessor Scheduling Under Uncertainty
This paper presents improved approximation algorithms for the problem of multiprocessor scheduling under uncertainty (SUU), in which the execution of each job may fail probabilist...
Christopher Y. Crutchfield, Zoran Dzunic, Jeremy T...
CPAIOR
2006
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Online Stochastic Reservation Systems
This paper considers online stochastic reservation problems, where requests come online and must be dynamically allocated to limited resources in order to maximize profit. Multi-k...
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Russell Bent, Yannis Vergad...