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Tabu Search Meta-Heuristic for Static Manycast Routing And Wavelength Assignment Over Wavelength-Routed Optical WDM Networks

September 28, 2009 12:00am PDT

This paper presents a tabu search meta-heuristic to solve the static MAnycast Routing and Wavelength Assignment problem (MA-RWA). The problem is to route a set of static manycast requests over a...

Provided by: University of Massachusetts

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The Effect Of Incentive Structure On Heuristic Decision Making: The Proportion Heuristic

June 11, 2007 12:00am PDT

When making judgments, individuals often utilize heuristics to interpret information. The paper reports on a series of experiments designed to test the ways in which incentive mechanisms influence...

Provided by: University of Calgary

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A Simple Heuristic For Serial Inventory Systems With Fixed Order Costs A Simple Heuristic For Serial Inventory Systems With Fixed Order Costs

March 1, 2007 12:00am PST

The authors propose a heuristic for finding base order quantities for stochastic inventory models. The heuristic includes two steps. The first clusters the stages according to cost parameters. The...

Provided by: Duke University (Fuqua-Global)

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Heuristic Strategies In Finance - An Overview

September 21, 2010 12:00am PDT

This paper presents a survey on the application of heuristic optimization techniques in the broad field of finance. Heuristic algorithms have been extensively used to tackle complex financial...

Provided by: European Commission

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Usability Heuristics Evaluation for Child E-learning Applications

June 1, 2010 12:00am PDT

Selecting Usability Evaluation Methods (UEMs) to expose usability problems in e-learning programs is influenced by time, cost, ease of application, and efficiency. Heuristic evaluation has become...

Provided by: Academy Publisher

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Usability Heuristics Evaluation for Child E-learning Applications

June 1, 2010 12:00am PDT

Selecting Usability Evaluation Methods (UEMs) to expose usability problems in e-learning programs is influenced by time, cost, ease of application, and efficiency. Heuristic evaluation has become...

Provided by: Academy Publisher

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A Heuristic Using GOSST With 2 Connecting Strategies for Minimum Construction Cost of Network

December 1, 2006 12:00am PST

The goal of this research is to devise a heuristic to solve the GOSST (Grade Of Services Steiner Minimum Tree) problem that could apply to the design of communication networks. GOSST problem is to...

Provided by: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Heuristic Tree Search for Detection and Decoding of Uncoded and Linear Block Coded Communication Systems

December 21, 2009 12:00am PST

A heuristic tree search algorithm is developed for the maximum likelihood detection and decoding problem in a general communication system. The authors propose several "Cheap" heuristic functions...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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Understanding and Teaching Heuristics

April 17, 2009 12:00am PDT

This paper is designed to provide a basic understanding of what heuristics are and how they are used in the anti-malware industry. Topics covered include signature based detection, generic...

Provided by: Eset

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Heuristics for Lifetime Maximization in Wireless Sensor Networks With Multiple Mobile Sinks

March 1, 2009 12:00am PST

This paper investigates heuristics to control and coordinate the concurrent movement of multiple sinks for lifetime maximization in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The authors have developed a...

Provided by: Northeastern University

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Heuristic Algorithms for Shared Protection of Virtual Private Networks

January 1, 2011 12:00am PST

Optimal routing in backbone networks with capacity constraints is a known problem. The task could be solved e.g. by integer programming or by heuristic algorithms. In the authors' paper, they...

Provided by: Budapest University of Technology and Economics

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Distributed Heuristics for Allocating Spectrum in CR Ad Hoc Networks

October 18, 2010 12:00am PDT

Cognitive Radios (CRs) address spectrum scarcity and under-utilization of the spectrum. However, realizing a CR network is neither easy nor straight-forward. In particular the link layer should...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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Multi-Dimensional Poisson Distribution Heuristic for Maximum Lifetime Routing in Wireless Sensor Network

December 19, 2009 12:00am PST

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have gained a lot of attention in both public and research communities. One issue in wireless sensor networks is achieving efficient operation because of the...

Provided by: IDOSI

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Technorati VP of engineering: Sifting through Splogs

October 28, 2008 3:26pm PDT

Dorion Carroll, vice president of engineering for Technorati, discusses the challenges inherent in trying to index the growing blogosphere. Because the company grew right along with it, they were...

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Novel Heuristics for Cell Radius Determination in WCDMA Systems and Their Application to Strategic Planning Studies

August 20, 2009 12:00am PDT

The authors propose and compare three novel heuristics for the calculation of the optimal cell radius in mobile networks based on Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) technology. The...

Provided by: Hindawi Publishing

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The Performance for Heuristic Algorithms for Virtual Topology Design in All-Optical WDM Networks

June 9, 2009 12:00am PDT

For a given network physical topology and traffic pattern, the authors' objective is to design the logical topology and the routing algorithm on that topology so as to minimize the Congestion. The...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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Optimizing OSPF Routing Using Accelerated Iterative Heuristic

January 8, 2009 12:00am PST

The problem of setting Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) weights on links such that congestion can be avoided is proved to be NP-hard. Many iterative heuristics have been applied to solve the OSPF...

Provided by: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

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A Catalogue of Object-Oriented Design Heuristics

June 19, 2007 12:00am PDT

Object-oriented design is a process of identifying relevant objects, factoring them into classes, organizing hierarchically, and establishing dynamic collaborations among the objects. It is a...

Provided by: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

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A Simple Heuristic For Serial Inventory Systems With Fixed Order Costs

March 1, 2007 12:00am PST

The authors propose a heuristic for finding base order quantities for stochastic inventory models. The heuristic includes two steps. The first clusters the stages according to cost parameters. The...

Provided by: Duke University (Fuqua-Global)

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Efficient Refinery Scheduling Heuristic in Heterogeneous Computing Systems

August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

With the emergence of distributed systems, the problem of task scheduling has been arousing attention in recent past. Task scheduling is a NP-complete problem and it is more complicated under the...

Provided by: Academy Publisher