This paper models and analyzes serial production lines with specialists at each station and a single, cross-trained floating worker who can work at any station. We formulate Marko...
Linn I. Sennott, Mark P. Van Oyen, Seyed M. R. Ira...
We consider a communication network with fixed routing that can accommodate multiple service classes, differing in bandwidth requirements, demand pattern, call duration, and routin...
Join the Shortest Queue (JSQ) is a popular routing policy for server farms. However, until now all analysis of JSQ has been limited to First-Come-First-Serve (FCFS) server farms, ...
Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter, Karl Sigman, Ward...
We propose a frameworkfor robot programming which allows the seamless integration of explicit agent programming with decision-theoretic planning. Specifically, the DTGolog model a...
Craig Boutilier, Raymond Reiter, Mikhail Soutchans...
Free style Chinese handwriting recognition continues to pose a challenge to researchers due to the variety of Chinese writing styles. To recognize handwritten characters in an onl...