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COR
2006
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13 years 11 months ago
A hybrid setup for a hybrid scenario: combining heuristics for the home health care problem
Home health care, i.e. visiting and nursing patients in their homes, is a growing sector in the medical service business. From a staff rostering point of view, the problem is to f...
Stefan Bertels, Torsten Fahle
CP
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Dynamic Management of Heuristics for Solving Structured CSPs
Abstract. This paper deals with the problem of solving efficiently structured CSPs. It is well known that (hyper)tree-decompositions offer the best approaches from a theoretical v...
Philippe Jégou, Samba Ndiaye, Cyril Terriou...
APPROX
2006
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Approximating Precedence-Constrained Single Machine Scheduling by Coloring
Abstract. This paper investigates the relationship between the dimension theory of partial orders and the problem of scheduling precedenceconstrained jobs on a single machine to mi...
Christoph Ambühl, Monaldo Mastrolilli, Ola Sv...
ACSC
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Two-Pronged Attack on the Dragon of Intractability
One approach to tractably finding a solution to an NP-complete optimisation problem is heuristic, where the solution is inexact but quickly found; another approach is to reduce t...
Stephen Gilmour, Mark Dras
TCAD
2002
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13 years 10 months ago
A constructive genetic algorithm for gate matrix layout problems
This paper describes an application of a Constructive Genetic Algorithm (CGA) to the Gate Matrix Layout Problem (GMLP). The GMLP happens in very large scale integration (VLSI) desi...
Alexandre César Muniz de Oliveira, Luiz Ant...