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PDCN
2004
14 years 8 days ago
Scalable parallel algorithms for difficult combinatorial problems: A case study in optimization
A novel combination of emergent algorithmic methods, powerful computational platforms and supporting infrastructure is described. These complementary tools and technologies are us...
Faisal N. Abu-Khzam, Michael A. Langston, Pushkar ...
DISOPT
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Group sequencing around a common due date
The problem of scheduling groups of jobs on a single machine under the group technology assumption is studied. Jobs of the same group are processed contiguously and a sequence ind...
T. C. Edwin Cheng, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov, C. T. Ng, ...
FGCS
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
Promoting performance and separation of concerns for data mining applications on the grid
Grid Computing brought the promise of making high-performance computing cheaper and more easily available than traditional supercomputing platforms. Such a promise was very well r...
Vasco Furtado, Francisco Flávio de Souza, W...
ISAAC
2001
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Balanced Scheduling toward Loss-Free Packet Queuing and Delay Fairness
In current networks, packet losses can occur if routers do not provide sufficiently large buffers. This paper studies how many buffers should be provided in a router to eliminat...
Hisashi Koga
ASIAMS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Optimization of a Kraft Pulping System: Using Particle Swarm Optimization and Differential Evolution
Expectation of profit is the economic driving force motivating business activity in a free-enterprise economy. An increase in this profit for a given organization can be accomplis...
Millie Pant, Radha Thangaraj, Ajith Abraham