The Cell Formation Problem is a crucial component of a cell production design in a manufacturing system. This problem consists of a set of product parts to be manufactured in a gr...
Andres Pailla, Athila R. Trindade, Victor Parada, ...
This paper presents a statistical model for expressing preferences through rankings, when the number of alternatives (items to rank) is large. A human ranker will then typically r...
The recent explosion of on-line information in Digital Libraries and on the World Wide Web has given rise to a number of query-based search engines and manually constructed topica...
Mehran Sahami, Salim Yusufali, Michelle Q. Wang Ba...
In Multi-Objective Problems (MOPs) involving uncertainty, each solution might be associated with a cluster of performances in the objective space depending on the possible scenari...
Social media sites (e.g., Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook) are a popular distribution outlet for users looking to share their experiences and interests on the Web. These sites host ...