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WSC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Bi-criteria evaluation of an outpatient procedure center via simulation
Surgical services require the coordination of many activities, including patient check-in and surgical preparation, surgery, and recovery after surgery. Each of these activities r...
Todd R. Huschka, Brian T. Denton, Serhat Gul, John...
EOR
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Minimizing makespan with multiple-orders-per-job in a two-machine flowshop
: New semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities use Front Opening Unified Pods (FOUPs) as a common unit of wafer transfer. Since the number of pods is limited due to high costs, a...
Jeffrey D. Laub, John W. Fowler, Ahmet B. Keha
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Distributed Parameter Estimation in Sensor Networks: Nonlinear Observation Models and Imperfect Communication
The paper studies the problem of distributed static parameter (vector) estimation in sensor networks with nonlinear observation models and imperfect inter-sensor communication. We...
Soummya Kar, José M. F. Moura, Kavita Raman...
BMCBI
2005
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13 years 7 months ago
Accelerated probabilistic inference of RNA structure evolution
Background: Pairwise stochastic context-free grammars (Pair SCFGs) are powerful tools for evolutionary analysis of RNA, including simultaneous RNA sequence alignment and secondary...
Ian Holmes
STOC
1998
ACM
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13 years 12 months ago
Minimizing Stall Time in Single and Parallel Disk Systems
We study integrated prefetching and caching problems following the work of Cao et. al. [3] and Kimbrel and Karlin [13]. Cao et. al. and Kimbrel and Karlin gave approximation algor...
Susanne Albers, Naveen Garg, Stefano Leonardi