Consider a single machine and a set of jobs that are available for processing at time 0. Job ¡ has a processing time ¢¤£ , a due date ¥¦£ and a weight §¨£ . We consid...
Automated political districting shares with electronic voting the aim of preventing electoral manipulation and pursuing an impartial electoral mechanism. Political districting can...
The natural metric of a weighted graph is the length of the shortest paths between all pairs of vertices. The investigated problem consists in a representation of a given metric b...
Markov decision processes (MDPs) and contingency planning (CP) are two widely used approaches to planning under uncertainty. MDPs are attractive because the model is extremely gen...
In this work, a novel optimization framework is proposed that allows the improvement of Quality of Service levels in TCP/IP based networks, by configuring the routing weights of ...
Miguel Rocha, Pedro Sousa, Paulo Cortez, Miguel Ri...