We propose a new approach for I/O scheduling that performs on-line simulation of the underlying disk. When simulation is integrated within a system, three key challenges must be a...
Florentina I. Popovici, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, ...
Some applications for real-time scheduling have target demands in addition to the commonly used starttime and deadline constraints: a task should be executed at a target point in ...
Optimization in sports is a field of increasing interest. A novel problem in sports management is the Referee Assignment Problem, in which a limited number of referees with differe...
Alexandre R. Duarte, Celso C. Ribeiro, Sebasti&aac...
Abstract--The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) is a cornerstone of financial economics. The EMH asserts that security prices fully reflect all available information and that the s...
William Leigh, Cheryl J. Frohlich, Steven Hornik, ...
This paper presents new bounds, heuristics, and an exact algorithm for the Pallet Loading Problem (PLP). PLP maximizes the number of boxes placed on a rectangular pallet. All boxe...