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The prediction of express delivery sequence, i.e., modeling and estimating the volumes of daily incoming and outgoing parcels for delivery, is critical for online business, logistics, and positive customer experience, and specifically for…
We consider the load balancing problem in large-scale heterogeneous systems with multiple dispatchers. We introduce a general framework called Local-Estimation-Driven (LED). Under this framework, each dispatcher keeps local (possibly…
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Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm to accommodate the increasingly prosperous delay-sensitive and computation-intensive applications in 5G systems. To achieve optimum computation performance in a dynamic MEC environment,…
Airlines today are faced with a number of large scale scheduling problems. One such problem is the tail assignment problem, which is the task of assigning individual aircraft to a given set of flights, minimizing the overall cost. Each…
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In this study, we provided a scheduling procedure which is a combination of machine learning and mathematical programming that minimizes the waiting time of higher priority outpatients. Outpatients who request for appointment in healthcare…
Motivated by the recent trend of integrating artificial intelligence into the Internet-of-Things (IoT), we consider the problem of scheduling packets from multiple sensing sources to a central controller over a wireless network. Here,…