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EOR
2006
106views more  EOR 2006»
15 years 4 months ago
Optimal dynamic assignment of a flexible worker on an open production line with specialists
This paper models and analyzes serial production lines with specialists at each station and a single, cross-trained floating worker who can work at any station. We formulate Marko...
Linn I. Sennott, Mark P. Van Oyen, Seyed M. R. Ira...
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FGR
2004
IEEE
167views Biometrics» more  FGR 2004»
15 years 7 months ago
Adaptive Learning of an Accurate Skin-Color Model
Due to variations of lighting conditions, camera hardware settings, and the range of skin coloration among human beings, a pre-defined skin-color model cannot accurately capture t...
Qiang Zhu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Ching-Tung Wu, Yi-Leh...
ACRI
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Optimizing the Behavior of a Moving Creature in Software and in Hardware
We have investigated a problem where the goal is to find automatically the best rule for a cell in the cellular automata model. The cells are either of type OBSTACLE, EMPTY or CRE...
Mathias Halbach, Wolfgang Heenes, Rolf Hoffmann, J...
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
187views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 1998»
15 years 8 months ago
An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
CCGRID
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Admission Control in a Computational Market
We propose, implement and evaluate three admission models for computational Grids. The models take the expected demand into account and offer a specific performance guarantee. Th...
Thomas Sandholm, Kevin Lai, Scott H. Clearwater