Many instances of NP-hard problems can be solved efficiently if the treewidth of their corresponding graph is small. Finding the optimal tree decompositions is an NP-hard problem a...
: The growth in demand for semiconductors has been accompanied by intense competition between semiconductor manufacturers to satisfy customer on-time delivery needs. This paper is ...
Many oil wells in Brazilian onshore fields rely on artificial lift methods. Maintenance services such as cleaning, reinstatement, stimulation and others are essential to these wel...
Dario J. Aloise, Daniel Aloise, Caroline T. M. Roc...
A pattern database (PDB) is a heuristic function implemented as a lookup table that stores the lengths of optimal solutions for subproblem instances. Standard PDBs have a distinct...
Ariel Felner, Richard E. Korf, Ram Meshulam, Rober...
In the paper, the global optimization problem of a multidimensional “black-box” function satisfying the Lipschitz condition over a hyperinterval with an unknown Lipschitz const...