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MOBIHOC
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Distributed opportunistic scheduling for ad-hoc communications: an optimal stopping approach
We consider distributed opportunistic scheduling (DOS) in wireless ad-hoc networks, where many links contend for the same channel using random access. In such networks, distribute...
Dong Zheng, Weiyan Ge, Junshan Zhang
EDCC
1999
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Dependability Modelling and Sensitivity Analysis of Scheduled Maintenance Systems
Abstract. In this paper we present a new modelling approach for dependability evaluation and sensitivity analysis of Scheduled Maintenance Systems, based on a Deterministic and Sto...
Andrea Bondavalli, Ivan Mura, Kishor S. Trivedi
CPAIOR
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Traveling Tournament Scheduling: A Systematic Evaluation of Simulated Annealling
Abstract. This paper considers all the variants of the traveling tournament prob) proposed in [17, 7] to abstract the salient features of major league baseball (MLB) in the United ...
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Yannis Vergados
WOA
2007
13 years 8 months ago
A Swarm Intelligence Method Applied to Manufacturing Scheduling
—In this paper we present a multi-agent search technique to face the NP-hard single machine total weighted tardiness scheduling problem in presence of sequence-dependent setup ti...
Davide Anghinolfi, Antonio Boccalatte, Alberto Gro...
WSC
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Outpatient appointment scheduling in a multi facility system
This study evaluates appointment systems used in hospitals by incorporating appointment rules and patient characteristics. Using an experiment unit at an internal medicine departm...
Athula Wijewickrama, Soemon Takakuwa