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EOR
2006
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15 years 4 months ago
Scheduling trainees at a hospital department using a branch-and-price approach
Scheduling trainees (graduate students) is a complicated problem that has to be solved frequently in many hospital departments. We will describe a trainee-scheduling problem encou...
Jeroen Beliën, Erik Demeulemeester
ICML
2009
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Learning structural SVMs with latent variables
We present a large-margin formulation and algorithm for structured output prediction that allows the use of latent variables. Our proposal covers a large range of application prob...
Chun-Nam John Yu, Thorsten Joachims
SODA
2010
ACM
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16 years 2 months ago
A quasi-polynomial time approximation scheme for Euclidean capacitated vehicle routing
In the capacitated vehicle routing problem, introduced by Dantzig and Ramser in 1959, we are given the locations of n customers and a depot, along with a vehicle of capacity k, an...
Aparna Das, Claire Mathieu
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ESA
2009
Springer
115views Algorithms» more  ESA 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Output-Sensitive Algorithms for Enumerating Minimal Transversals for Some Geometric Hypergraphs
We give a general framework for the problem of finding all minimal hitting sets of a family of objects in Rd by another. We apply this framework to the following problems: (i) hit...
Khaled M. Elbassioni, Kazuhisa Makino, Imran Rauf
COCOON
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Tight Analysis of the Maximal Matching Heuristic
We study the worst-case performance of the maximal matching heuristic applied to the Minimum Vertex Cover and Minimum Maximal Matching problems, through a careful analysis of tigh...
Jean Cardinal, Martine Labbé, Stefan Langer...