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CORR
2010
Springer
125views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Local search for stable marriage problems with ties and incomplete lists
The stable marriage problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals, to matching students to schools, or more generally to...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...
PE
2006
Springer
111views Optimization» more  PE 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
How many servers are best in a dual-priority M/PH/k system?
We ask the question, "for minimizing mean response time (sojourn time), which is preferable: one fast server of speed 1, or k slow servers each of speed 1/k?" Our settin...
Adam Wierman, Takayuki Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter...
KES
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A computational framework for package planning
We consider a novel class of applications where a set of activities conducted by a group of people over a time period needs to be planned, taking into account each member's p...
Yang Xiang, Michael Janzen
EUMAS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Agents Arguing over Ontology Alignments
ed Abstract Ontologies play an important role in inter-agent communication, by providing the definitions of the vocabularies used by agents to describe the world [4]. An agent can ...
Loredana Laera, Valentina A. M. Tamma, Jér&...
IUI
1993
ACM
14 years 17 days ago
The price of flexibility
The goal of this paper is to model an agent who dislikes large choice sets because of the “cost of thinking” involved in choosing from them. We take as a primitive a preferenc...
David D. Woods