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SAC
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
On unit task linear-nonlinear two-cluster scheduling problem
In parallel and distributed processing, tasks are ordinarily clustered and assigned to different processors or machines before they are scheduled. The assignment of tasks to proc...
Zhichun Xiao, Wing Ning Li, John Jing-Fu Jenq
CORR
2008
Springer
95views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
An Indirect Genetic Algorithm for a Nurse Scheduling Problem
This paper describes a Genetic Algorithms approach to a manpower-scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. Although Genetic Algorithms have been successfully used for sim...
Uwe Aickelin, Kathryn A. Dowsland
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Unearthing Design Patterns to Support Context-Awareness
The lack of structured methodologies and software engineering efforts on designing the support of contextawareness in pervasive systems hinders the potential advantages of analyzi...
Oriana Riva, Cristiano di Flora, Stefano Russo, Ki...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
178views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 10 months ago
On the Optimal Selection of k in the k-Anonymity Problem
When disseminating data involving human subjects, researchers have to weigh in the requirements of privacy of the individuals involved in the data. A model widely used for enhancin...
Rinku Dewri, Indrajit Ray, Indrakshi Ray, Darrell ...
SIES
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Novel Genome Coding of Genetic Algorithms for the System Partitioning Problem
— The research field of partitioning for electronic systems started to attract significant attention of scientists about fifteen years ago. Gaining ever more importance due to...
Bastian Knerr, Martin Holzer 0002, Markus Rupp