We propose a new decision-theoretic approach for solving execution-time deliberation scheduling problems using recent advances in Generalized Semi-Markov Decision Processes (GSMDP...
Telemarketers, direct marketing agencies, collection agencies and others whose primary means of customer contact is via the telephone invest considerable sums of money to make the...
Recently, in the field of project scheduling problems the concept of partially renewable resources has been introduced. Theoretically, it is a generalization of both renewable and...
Abstract--The proportional differentiation model is a newly introduced approach for differentiated services networks. This paper proposes and evaluates a scheduling mechanism for t...
We propose a model called priority branching trees (pBT ) for backtracking and dynamic programming algorithms. Our model generalizes both the priority model of Borodin, Nielson an...
Michael Alekhnovich, Allan Borodin, Joshua Buresh-...