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COR
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
A hybrid setup for a hybrid scenario: combining heuristics for the home health care problem
Home health care, i.e. visiting and nursing patients in their homes, is a growing sector in the medical service business. From a staff rostering point of view, the problem is to f...
Stefan Bertels, Torsten Fahle
ESWA
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Improved route planning and scheduling of waste collection and transport
The collection of waste is a highly visible and important municipal service that involves large expenditures. Waste collection problems are, however, one of the most difficult ope...
Teemu Nuortio, Jari Kytöjoki, Harri Niska, Ol...
P2P
2006
IEEE
229views Communications» more  P2P 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Cost-Aware Processing of Similarity Queries in Structured Overlays
Large-scale distributed data management with P2P systems requires the existence of similarity operators for queries as we cannot assume that all users will agree on exactly the sa...
Marcel Karnstedt, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Manfred Hauswir...
WAOA
2005
Springer
104views Algorithms» more  WAOA 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
The Online Target Date Assignment Problem
Abstract. Many online problems encountered in real-life involve a twostage decision process: upon arrival of a new request, an irrevocable firststage decision (the assignment of a...
Stefan Heinz, Sven Oliver Krumke, Nicole Megow, J&...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Combining Multihoming with Overlay Routing (or, How to Be a Better ISP without Owning a Network)
— Multihoming and overlay routing are used, mostly separately, to bypass Internet outages, congested links and long routes. In this paper, we examine a scenario in which multihom...
Yong Zhu, Constantinos Dovrolis, Mostafa H. Ammar