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JAIR
2006
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15 years 3 months ago
How the Landscape of Random Job Shop Scheduling Instances Depends on the Ratio of Jobs to Machines
We characterize the search landscape of random instances of the job shop scheduling problem (JSP). Specifically, we investigate how the expected values of (1) backbone size, (2) d...
Matthew J. Streeter, Stephen F. Smith
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PE
2006
Springer
111views Optimization» more  PE 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
How many servers are best in a dual-priority M/PH/k system?
We ask the question, "for minimizing mean response time (sojourn time), which is preferable: one fast server of speed 1, or k slow servers each of speed 1/k?" Our settin...
Adam Wierman, Takayuki Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter...
CORR
2011
Springer
159views Education» more  CORR 2011»
14 years 11 months ago
How to Play Unique Games against a Semi-Random Adversary
In this paper, we study the average case complexity of the Unique Games problem. We propose a natural semi-random model, in which a unique game instance is generated in several st...
Alexandra Kolla, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makar...
ICIP
2002
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
How a simple shift can significantly improve the performance of linear interpolation
We present a simple, original method to improve piecewise linear interpolation with uniform knots: We shift the sampling knots by a fixed amount, while enforcing the interpolation...
Michael Unser, Philippe Thévenaz, Thierry B...
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CIE
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
How to Compare the Power of Computational Models
We argue that there is currently no satisfactory general framework for comparing the extensional computational power of arbitrary computational models operating over arbitrary doma...
Udi Boker, Nachum Dershowitz