This paper intends to show that the time needed to solve mixed integer programming problems by branch and bound can be roughly predicted early in the solution process. We construc...
Retiming and recycling are two transformations used to optimize the performance of latency-insensitive (a.k.a. synchronous elastic) systems. This paper presents an approach that c...
Dmitry Bufistov, Jordi Cortadella, Marc Galceran O...
Video on Demand (VoD) is a technology used to provide a number of programs to a number of users on request. In developing a VoD system, a fundamental problem is load balancing, wh...
We consider the unrelated parallel machines scheduling problem where jobs have earliness and tardiness penalties and a common due date. We formulate this problem and some of its v...