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CORR
2008
Springer
95views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
An Indirect Genetic Algorithm for a Nurse Scheduling Problem
This paper describes a Genetic Algorithms approach to a manpower-scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. Although Genetic Algorithms have been successfully used for sim...
Uwe Aickelin, Kathryn A. Dowsland
CDC
2009
IEEE
191views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 3 days ago
Convergence and stability of a distributed CSMA algorithm for maximal network throughput
—Designing efficient scheduling algorithms is an important problem in a general class of networks with resourcesharing constraints, such as wireless networks and stochastic proc...
Libin Jiang, Jean C. Walrand
ECRTS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Scheduling Tasks with Markov-Chain Based Constraints
Markov-Chain (MC) based constraints have been shown to be an effective QoS measure for a class of real-time systems, particularly those arising from control applications. Scheduli...
Donglin Liu, Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Michael D. Lemmon, ...
IPCO
1998
152views Optimization» more  IPCO 1998»
13 years 8 months ago
Approximation Bounds for a General Class of Precedence Constrained Parallel Machine Scheduling Problems
Abstract. A well studied and difficult class of scheduling problems concerns parallel machines and precedence constraints. In order to model more realistic situations, we consider ...
Alix Munier, Maurice Queyranne, Andreas S. Schulz
EVOW
2012
Springer
12 years 3 months ago
HyFlex: A Benchmark Framework for Cross-Domain Heuristic Search
This paper presents HyFlex, a software framework for the development of cross-domain search methodologies. The framework features a common software interface for dealing with diff...
Gabriela Ochoa, Matthew R. Hyde, Timothy Curtois, ...