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EOR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Robust surgery loading
We consider the robust surgery loading problem for a hospital's operating theatre department, which concerns assigning surgeries and sufficient planned slack to operating roo...
Erwin W. Hans, Gerhard Wullink, Mark van Houdenhov...
LION
2007
Springer
192views Optimization» more  LION 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Learning While Optimizing an Unknown Fitness Surface
This paper is about Reinforcement Learning (RL) applied to online parameter tuning in Stochastic Local Search (SLS) methods. In particular a novel application of RL is considered i...
Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Paolo Campigotto
DMDW
2000
173views Management» more  DMDW 2000»
13 years 9 months ago
A quality-based framework for physical data warehouse design
Data warehousing is a software infrastructure which supports OLAP applications by providing a collection of tools which allow data extraction and cleaning, data integration and ag...
Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Zoubida Kedad
CP
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Probabilistically Estimating Backbones and Variable Bias: Experimental Overview
Backbone variables have the same assignment in all solutions to a given constraint satisfaction problem; more generally, bias represents the proportion of solutions that assign a v...
Eric I. Hsu, Christian J. Muise, J. Christopher Be...
AIPS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Stochastic Enforced Hill-Climbing
Enforced hill-climbing is an effective deterministic hillclimbing technique that deals with local optima using breadth-first search (a process called "basin flooding"). ...
Jia-Hong Wu, Rajesh Kalyanam, Robert Givan