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MANSCI
2008
128views more  MANSCI 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Optimizing Call Center Staffing Using Simulation and Analytic Center Cutting-Plane Methods
We consider the problem of minimizing staffing costs in an inbound call center, while maintaining an acceptable level of service in multiple time periods. The problem is complicat...
Júlíus Atlason, Marina A. Epelman, S...
KDD
2012
ACM
207views Data Mining» more  KDD 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
Robust multi-task feature learning
Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve the performance of multiple related tasks by exploiting the intrinsic relationships among them. Recently, multi-task feature learning alg...
Pinghua Gong, Jieping Ye, Changshui Zhang
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
105views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Towards truthful mechanisms for binary demand games: a general framework
The family of Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanisms is arguably the most celebrated achievement in truthful mechanism design. However, VCG mechanisms have their limitations. They...
Ming-Yang Kao, Xiang-Yang Li, Weizhao Wang
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Mechanism Design with Partial Revelation
Classic direct mechanisms require full type (or utility) revelation from participating agents, something that can be very difficult in practical multi-attribute settings. In this...
Nathanael Hyafil, Craig Boutilier
TIT
2010
174views Education» more  TIT 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Toeplitz Compressed Sensing Matrices With Applications to Sparse Channel Estimation
Compressed sensing (CS) has recently emerged as a powerful signal acquisition paradigm. In essence, CS enables the recovery of high-dimensional sparse signals from relatively few ...
Jarvis Haupt, Waheed Uz Zaman Bajwa, Gil M. Raz, R...