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CPAIOR
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Upgrading Shortest Paths in Networks
We introduce the Upgrading Shortest Paths Problem, a new combinatorial problem for improving network connectivity with a wide range of applications from multicast communication to ...
Bistra N. Dilkina, Katherine J. Lai, Carla P. Gome...
CPAIOR
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Manipulating MDD Relaxations for Combinatorial Optimization
Abstract. We study the application of limited-width MDDs (multivalued decision diagrams) as discrete relaxations for combinatorial optimization problems. These relaxations are used...
David Bergman, Willem Jan van Hoeve, John N. Hooke...
CPAIOR
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Optimization Methods for the Partner Units Problem
In this work we present the Partner Units Problem as a novel challenge for optimization methods. It captures a certain type of configuration problem that frequently occurs in indu...
Markus Aschinger, Conrad Drescher, Gerhard Friedri...
CPAIOR
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Almost Square Packing
Abstract. The almost square rectangle packing problem involves packing all rectangles with sizes 1 × 2 to n × (n + 1) (almost squares) into an enclosing rectangle of minimal area...
Helmut Simonis, Barry O'Sullivan
ORL
2011
13 years 5 months ago
Convex approximations to sparse PCA via Lagrangian duality
We derive a convex relaxation for cardinality constrained Principal Component Analysis (PCA) by using a simple representation of the L1 unit ball and standard Lagrangian duality. ...
Ronny Luss, Marc Teboulle
PAA
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A comparative study on feature extraction for fingerprint classification and performance improvements using rank-level fusion
Abstract Fingerprint classification represents an important preprocessing step in fingerprint identification, which can be very helpful in reducing the cost of searching large fing...
Uday Rajanna, Ali Erol, George Bebis
PAA
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Multiple Condensation filters for road detection and tracking
In this paper, we present a novel and robust road tracking system for vision-based personal navigation. Novelty of the work includes the use of multiple Condensation filters to tra...
Li Bai, Yan Wang, Michael C. Fairhurst
PAA
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Identification of scripts and orientations of degraded document images
This paper presents a pair of identification technique that automatically detect scripts and orientations of document images suffering from various types of document degradation. ...
Shijian Lu, Linlin Li, Chew Lim Tan
ORL
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Easy distributions for combinatorial optimization problems with probabilistic constraints
We show how we can linearize probabilistic linear constraints with binary variables when all coefficients are distributed according to either N(
Bernard Fortz, Michael Poss
ORL
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
An embedded Markov chain approach to stock rationing
Rationing is an inventory policy that allows prioritization of demand classes. It enables the inventory system to provide higher service levels for critical demand classes. In thi...
Mehmet Murat Fadiloglu, Önder Bulut