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WSC
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Using simulation to predict market behavior for outbound call centers
In the last few years, the call center industry has considerably grown especially the outbound call center area, such as telemarketing. The productivity of the call centers has si...
Paulo J. de Freitas Filho, Geovani Ferreira da Cru...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
What did qubits ever do for me: an answer for CS2 students
We show how to teach and motivate small quantum computer programs as a supplemental topic in a CS2 data structures class. A traditional example such as Shor’s factorization [8] ...
Michael Main, Robert Frohardt, Yingdan Huang
ECIR
2008
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models
Many traditional information retrieval models, such as BM25 and language modeling, give good retrieval effectiveness, but can be difficult to implement efficiently. Recently, docum...
Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft
GECCO
2010
Springer
213views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Consultant-guided search algorithms for the quadratic assignment problem
Abstract. Consultant-Guided Search (CGS) is a recent swarm intelligence metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems, inspired by the way real people make decisions based ...
Serban Iordache
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Analytics for software development
Despite large volumes of data and many types of metrics, software projects continue to be difficult to predict and risky to conduct. In this paper we propose software analytics wh...
Raymond P. L. Buse, Thomas Zimmermann