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AGI
2011
13 years 6 days ago
2011
Abstract. Perfectly rational decision-makers maximize expected utility, but crucially ignore the resource costs incurred when determining optimal actions. Here we employ an axiomat...
ALGORITHMICA
2000
13 years 8 months ago
2000
We study the problem of minimizing the expected cost of binary searching for data where the access cost is not fixed and depends on the last accessed element, such as data stored i...
ICDE
2010
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
Given a positive value r, a circular range query returns the objects that lie within the distance r of the query location. In this paper, we study the circular range queries that c...
COSIT
1995
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
1995
Springer
: Spatial relations are becoming an important aspect of spatial access methods because of the increasing interest on qualitative spatial information processing. In this paper we sh...
WSC
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
In this paper we develop a two stage algorithm for scheduling call centers with strict SLAs and arrival rate uncertainty. The first cut schedule can be developed in less than a mi...