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In this work, we address a task allocation problem for human multi-robot settings. Given a set of tasks to perform, we formulate a general Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem aiming at minimizing the overall execution time while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Martina Lippi , Alessandro Marino

Because an agents resources dictate what actions it can possibly take, it should plan which resources it holds over time carefully, considering its inherent limitations (such as power or payload restrictions), the competing needs of other…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Jianhui Wu , Edmund H. Durfee

This paper addresses the problem of planning time-optimal trajectories for multiple cooperative agents along specified paths through a static road network. Vehicle interactions at intersections create non-trivial decisions, with complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Philip Gun , Andrew Hill , Robin Vujanic

Effective resource allocation plays a pivotal role for performance optimization in wireless networks. Unfortunately, typical resource allocation problems are mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems, which are NP-hard. Machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-20 Yifei Shen , Yuanming Shi , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper focuses on the problem of supplying the workstations of assembly lines with components during the production process. For that specific problem, this paper presents a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) that aims at minimizing…

Finding optimal join orders is among the most crucial steps to be performed by query optimisers. Though extensively studied in data management research, the problem remains far from solved: While query optimisers rely on exhaustive search…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Manuel Schönberger , Immanuel Trummer , Wolfgang Mauerer

The rapid growth of time-sensitive applications and services has driven enhancements to computing infrastructures. The main challenge that needs addressing for these applications is the optimal placement of the end-users demands to reduce…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Abdullah M. Alqahtani , Barzan Yosuf , Sanaa H. Mohamed , Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

We address the optimal design of a large scale multi-agent system where each agent has discrete and/or continuous decision variables that need to be set so as to optimize the sum of linear local cost functions, in presence of linear local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Alessandro Falsone , Kostas Margellos , Maria Prandini

We transform join ordering into a mixed integer linear program (MILP). This allows to address query optimization by mature MILP solver implementations that have evolved over decades and steadily improved their performance. They offer…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-11-09 Immanuel Trummer , Christoph Koch

In this paper we deal with a network of agents seeking to solve in a distributed way Mixed-Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) with a coupling constraint (modeling a limited shared resource) and local constraints. MILPs are NP-hard problems and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Andrea Camisa , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Scheduling query execution plans is a particularly complex problem in shared-nothing parallel systems, where each site consists of a collection of local time-shared (e.g., CPU(s) or disk(s)) and space-shared (e.g., memory) resources and…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Minos Garofalakis , Yannis Ioannidis

We study the problem of user-scheduling and resource allocation in distributed multi-user, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks implementing user-centric clustering and non-coherent transmission. We formulate a weighted sum-rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Kothapalli Srinivas

We present the viewpoint that optimization problems encountered in machine learning can often be interpreted as minimizing a convex functional over a function space, but with a non-convex constraint set introduced by model parameterization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yongqiang Cai , Qianxiao Li , Zuowei Shen

Small cells with edge computing are densely deployed in 5G mobile networks to provide high throughput communication and low-latency computation. The flexibility of edge computation is empowered by the deployment of lightweight…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Haojie Yan , Yuedong Xu , Lianggui Dai

A common challenge in real-time operations is deciding whether to re-solve an optimization problem or continue using an existing solution. While modern data platforms may collect information at high frequencies, many real-time operations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rui Ai , Hugo De Oliveira Barbalho , Sirui Li , Alexei Robsky , David Simchi-Levi , Ishai Menache

Several high-throughput distributed data-processing applications require multi-hop processing of streams of data. These applications include continual processing on data streams originating from a network of sensors, composing a multimedia…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-03-26 Shah Asaduzzaman , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

This paper considers a network of collaborating agents for local resource allocation subject to nonlinear model constraints. In many applications, it is required (or desirable) that the solution be anytime feasible in terms of satisfying…

In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for the network slicing problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests (also called services) to a common shared network infrastructure and allocate network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Wei-Kun Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Fan Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo

Due to the limited resource capacity of edge servers and the high purchase costs of edge resources, service providers are facing the new challenge of how to take full advantage of the constrained edge resources for Internet of Things (IoT)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Lujie Tang , Minxian Xu , Chengzhong Xu , Kejiang Ye

Recent growing complexity in space missions has led to an active research field of space logistics and mission design. This research field leverages the key ideas and methods used to handle complex terrestrial logistics to tackle space…

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