We present a genetic algorithm for heuristically solving a cost minimization problem applied to communication networks with threshold based discounting. The network model assumes t...
Abstract Since the concept of private information retrieval (PIR) was first formalized by Chor et. al, various constructions have been proposed with a common goal of reducing commu...
Xuhua Ding, Yanjiang Yang, Robert H. Deng, Shuhong...
A branch-and-bound algorithm is devised to determine the optimal attack strategy to disconnect a network where the objective is to minimize the expected attacking cost. The attack...
This paper deals with an NP-hard bi-objective one-machine problem with ready times involving maximum lateness and unit family setup cost objectives. Considering separately both ob...
Christian Artigues, Nicolas Jozefowiez, Mohamed Al...
Our goal is to automatically learn a perceptually-optimal target cost function for a unit selection speech synthesiser. The approach we take here is to train a classifier on human...