EOR
2006
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2006
The simple assembly line balancing problem is a classical integer programming problem in operations research. A set of tasks, each one being an indivisible amount of work requirin...
EOR
2006
13 years 12 months ago
2006
We consider the problem of partitioning a set of positive integers values into a given number of subsets, each having an associated cardinality limit, so that the maximum sum of v...
DM
2006
13 years 12 months ago
2006
The simple device of maximization over subsets of events can provide substantial improvement over the Dawson
DISOPT
2006
13 years 12 months ago
2006
We present lower bounds for the vehicle routing problem (VRP) with and without split deliveries, improving the well known bound of Haimovich and Rinnooy Kan. These bounds are then...
DCG
2006
13 years 12 months ago
2006
We use circular sequences to give an improved lower bound on the minimum number of ( k)
DATAMINE
2006
13 years 12 months ago
2006
Motivated by the poor performance (linear complexity) of the EM algorithm in clustering large data sets, and inspired by the successful accelerated versions of related algorithms l...
CORR
2006
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2006
Springer
We give a tight lower bound of ( n) for the randomized one-way communication complexity of the Boolean Hidden Matching Problem [BJK04]. Since there is a quantum one-way communica...
COMBINATORICS
2006
13 years 12 months ago
2006
A biclique is a complete bipartite subgraph of a graph. This paper investigates the fractional biclique cover number, bc(G), and the fractional biclique partition number, bp(G), o...
AOR
2006
13 years 12 months ago
2006
The problem of on-line bin packing restricted to instances with only two item sizes (known in advance) has a well-known lower bound of 4/3 for its asymptotic competitive ratio. We...
ECCC
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Any proof of P = NP will have to overcome two barriers: relativization and natural proofs. Yet over the last decade, we have seen circuit lower bounds (for example, that PP does n...