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GECCO
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. Improving image quality is the backbone of highly competitive display industry. Contemporary video processing system design is a challenging optimization problem. General...
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HICSS
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
2003
IEEE
Franchising has been popular as a growth strategy for small businesses; it is even more so in today’s global and information-based economy. In early 2001, Entrepreneur magazineâ...
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HICSS
2000
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
2000
IEEE
In the past, full-service stock brokerage firms had a strategic advantage over discount brokers because of the control full-service brokers had over the information provided to th...
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CP
1998
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
1998
Springer
A well-studied problem in the electric power industry is that of optimally scheduling preventative maintenance of power generating units within a power plant. We show how these pr...
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DAC
1997
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
1997
ACM
This paper describes a fully automatic standard-cell layout synthesis system, CELLERITY. The system is flexible in supporting a wide variety of process technologies and a range of...