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UAI
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Maximum Likelihood Bounded Tree-Width Markov Networks
We study the problem of projecting a distribution onto (or finding a maximum likelihood distribution among) Markov networks of bounded tree-width. By casting it as the combinatori...
Nathan Srebro
ISPD
1997
ACM
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A matrix synthesis approach to thermal placement
— In this paper, we consider the thermal placement problem for gate arrays. We introduce a new combinatorial optimization problem, matrix synthesis problem (MSP), to model the th...
Chris C. N. Chu, D. F. Wong
GLVLSI
1998
IEEE
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Tabu Search Based Circuit Optimization
In this paper we address the problem of optimizing mixed CMOS BiCMOS circuits. The problem is formulated as a constrained combinatorial optimization problem and solved using an ta...
Sadiq M. Sait, Habib Youssef, Munir M. Zahra
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Mapping Media Streams onto a Network of Servers
This paper presents the definition as well as a number of methods for the solution of a new combinatorial optimization problem, called S-MAMP that has to be solved for the efficie...
Reinhard Lüling
HPDC
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An Enabling Framework for Master-Worker Applications on the Computational Grid
We describe MW – a software framework that allows users to quickly and easily parallelize scientific computations using the master-worker paradigm on the computationalgrid. MW ...
Jean-Pierre Goux, Sanjeev Kulkarni, Jeff Linderoth...
EMO
2001
Springer
100views Optimization» more  EMO 2001»
14 years 5 months ago
Fuzzy Evolutionary Hybrid Metaheuristic for Network Topology Design
Abstract. Topology design of enterprise networks is a hard combinatorial optimization problem. It has numerous constraints, several objectives, and a very noisy solution space. Bes...
Habib Youssef, Sadiq M. Sait, Salman A. Khan
EVOW
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Finding Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with Metaheuristics
This paper deals with the generation of balanced incomplete block designs (BIBD), a hard constrained combinatorial problem with multiple applications. This problem is here formulat...
David Rodríguez Rueda, Carlos Cotta, Antoni...
CPAIOR
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Constraint Integer Programming Approach for Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling
Abstract. We propose a hybrid approach for solving the resource-constrained project scheduling problem which is an extremely hard to solve combinatorial optimization problem of pra...
Timo Berthold, Stefan Heinz, Marco E. Lübbeck...
EVOW
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Scatter Search and Memetic Approaches to the Error Correcting Code Problem
We consider the problem of designing error correcting codes (ECC), a hard combinatorial optimization problem of relevance in the field of telecommunications. This problem is tackl...
Carlos Cotta
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
96views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
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A stochastic programming approach to scheduling in TAC SCM
In this paper, we combine two approaches to handling uncertainty: we use techniques for finding optimal solutions in the expected sense to solve combinatorial optimization proble...
Michael Benisch, Amy R. Greenwald, Victor Narodits...