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PPDP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Heuristics, optimizations, and parallelism for protein structure prediction in CLP(FD)
The paper describes a constraint-based solution to the protein folding problem on face-centered cubic lattices—a biologically meaningful approximation of the general protein fol...
Alessandro Dal Palù, Agostino Dovier, Enric...
AIPS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Tractable Optimal Competitive Scheduling
In this paper we describe the problem of Optimal Competitive Scheduling, which consists of activities that compete for a shared resource. The objective is to choose a subset of ac...
Jeremy Frank, James Crawford, Lina Khatib, Ronen I...
HM
2010
Springer
133views Optimization» more  HM 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
A Hybrid LS-CP Solver for the Shifts and Breaks Design Problem
The problem of designing workforce shifts and break patterns is a relevant employee scheduling problem that arises in many contexts, especially in service industries. The issue is ...
Luca Di Gaspero, Johannes Gärtner, Nysret Mus...
COCOS
2003
Springer
148views Optimization» more  COCOS 2003»
14 years 26 days ago
Convex Programming Methods for Global Optimization
We investigate some approaches to solving nonconvex global optimization problems by convex nonlinear programming methods. We assume that the problem becomes convex when selected va...
John N. Hooker
CDC
2009
IEEE
211views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 11 days ago
An event-triggered distributed primal-dual algorithm for Network Utility maximization
Abstract— Many problems associated with networked systems can be formulated as network utility maximization (NUM) problems. NUM problems maximize a global separable measure of ne...
Pu Wan, Michael D. Lemmon