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COMAD
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Information Integration Across Heterogeneous Sources: Where Do We Stand and How to Proceed?
Today, information integration has assumed a completely different, complex connotation than what it used to be. The advent of the Internet, the proliferation of information source...
Aditya Telang, Sharma Chakravarthy, Yan Huang
JAIR
2006
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13 years 7 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
PE
2006
Springer
111views Optimization» more  PE 2006»
13 years 7 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
2004
Springer
103views Education» more  CORR 2004»
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The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robots
An optimization problem that naturally arises in the study of swarm robotics is the Freeze-Tag Problem (FTP) of how to awaken a set of "asleep" robots, by having an awak...
Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender, Sándor ...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
How to carry over historic books into social networks
This paper describes how to make use of e-books that look like printed books in a knowledge network. After an overview of digitalization efforts and current digital library initia...
Heimo Müller, Hermann A. Maurer