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WSC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Speeding up call center simulation and optimization by Markov chain uniformization
Staffing and scheduling optimization in large multiskill call centers is time-consuming, mainly because it requires lengthy simulations to evaluate performance measures and their ...
Eric Buist, Wyean Chan, Pierre L'Ecuyer
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Learning task-specific trust decisions
We study the problem of agents locating other agents that are both capable and willing to help complete assigned tasks. An agent incurs a fixed cost for each help request it sends...
Ikpeme Erete, Erin Ferguson, Sandip Sen
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Cooperative search for optimizing pipeline operations
We present an application of a multi-agent cooperative search approach to the problem of optimizing gas pipeline operations, i.e. finding control parameters for a gas transmission...
T. Mora, Abu B. Sesay, Jörg Denzinger, Hossei...
CCS
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Assessing query privileges via safe and efficient permission composition
We propose an approach for the selective enforcement of access control restrictions in, possibly distributed, large data collections based on two basic concepts: i) flexible autho...
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Su...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Ranked feature fusion models for ad hoc retrieval
We introduce the Ranked Feature Fusion framework for information retrieval system design. Typical information retrieval formalisms such as the vector space model, the bestmatch mo...
Jeremy Pickens, Gene Golovchinsky