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Reallocation scheduling is one of the most fundamental problems in various areas such as supply chain management, logistics, and transportation science. In this paper, we introduce the reallocation problem that models the scheduling in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Toshimasa Ishii , Jun Kawahara , Kazuhisa Makino , Hirotaka Ono

In this study, we consider the real-world problem of assigning students to classes, where each student has a preference list, ranking a subset of classes in order of preference. Though we use existing approaches to include the daily class…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Akifumi Kira , Kiyohito Nagano , Manabu Sugiyama , Naoyuki Kamiyama

This paper discusses various types of constraints, difficulties and solutions to overcome the challenges regarding university course allocation problem. A hybrid evolutionary algorithm has been defined combining Local Repair Algorithm and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Dibyo Fabian Dofadar , Riyo Hayat Khan , Shafqat Hasan , Towshik Anam Taj , Arif Shakil , Mahbub Majumdar

Rent division is the well-studied problem of fairly assigning rooms and dividing rent among a set of roommates within a single apartment. A shortcoming of existing solutions is that renters are assumed to be considering apartments in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ariel D. Procaccia , Benjamin Schiffer , Shirley Zhang

Parking has been a painful problem for urban drivers. The parking pain exacerbates as more people tend to live in cities in the context of global urbanization. Thus, it is demanding to find a solution to mitigate d rivers' parking…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Qianyu Ou , Wenjun Zheng , Zhan Shi , Ruizhi Liao

School bus planning is usually divided into routing and scheduling due to the complexity of solving them concurrently. However, the separation between these two steps may lead to worse solutions with higher overall costs than that from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Ali Shafahi , Zhongxiang Wang , Ali Haghani

We introduce a new problem in the domain of mobile robots, which we term dispersion. In this problem, $n$ robots are placed in an $n$ node graph arbitrarily and must coordinate with each other to reach a final configuration such that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-18 John Augustine , William K. Moses

This paper presents a novel solution to automatically count vehicles in a parking lot using images captured by smart cameras. Unlike most of the literature on this task, which focuses on the analysis of single images, this paper proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Luca Ciampi , Claudio Gennaro , Fabio Carrara , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Vairo , Giuseppe Amato

In many applications of social navigation, existing works have shown that predicting and reasoning about human intentions can help robotic agents make safer and more socially acceptable decisions. In this work, we study this problem for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Long Kiu Chung , David Isele , Faizan M. Tariq , Sangjae Bae , Shreyas Kousik , Jovin D'sa

The increasing availability and adoption of shared vehicles as an alternative to personally-owned cars presents ample opportunities for achieving more efficient transportation in cities. With private cars spending on the average over 95\%…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Dániel Kondor , Hongmou Zhang , Remi Tachet , Paolo Santi , Carlo Ratti

We propose a fair and efficient solution for assigning agents to m posts subject to congestion, when agents care about both their post and its congestion. Examples include assigning jobs to busy servers, students to crowded schools or…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-02-23 Anna Bogomolnaia , Herve Moulin

The recent promotion of sustainable urban planning combined with a growing need for public interventions to improve well-being and health have led to an increased collective interest for green spaces in and around cities. In particular,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Caroline Leboeuf , Margarida Carvalho , Yan Kestens , Benoît Thierry

This work focuses on finding optimal locations for charging stations for one-way electric car sharing programs. The relocation of vehicles by a service staff is generally required in vehicle sharing programs in order to correct imbalances…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Antoine Deza , Kai Huang , Michael R. Metel

Parking infrastructure is pervasive and occupies large swaths of land in cities. However, on-demand (OD) mobility -- such as commercial services Uber, Grab or Didi -- has started reducing parking needs in urban areas around the world. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-21 Daniel Kondor , Paolo Santi , Diem-Trinh Le , Xiaohu Zhang , Adam Millard-Ball , Carlo Ratti

Vehicle-sharing systems -- such as bike-, car-, or motorcycle-sharing systems -- have become increasingly popular in big cities in recent years. On the one hand, they provide a cheaper and environmentally friendlier means of transportation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Holger Billhardt , Alberto Fernández , Sascha Ossowski

For accommodating more electric vehicles (EVs) to battle against fossil fuel emission, the problem of charging station placement is inevitable and could be costly if done improperly. Some researches consider a general setup, using…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Qiushi Cui , Yang Weng , Chin-Woo Tan

The assignment problem is an essential problem in many application fields and frequently used to optimize resource usage. The problem is well understood and various efficient algorithms exist to solve the problem. However, it was unclear…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Thomas Loruenser , Florian Wohner , Stephan Krenn

Mobility-on-demand systems are transforming the way we think about the transportation of people and goods. Most research effort has been placed on scalability issues for systems with a large number of agents and simple pick-up/drop-off…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kaier Liang , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

The Stable Roommates problems are characterized by the preferences of agents over other agents as roommates. A solution is a partition of the agents into pairs that are acceptable to each other (i.e., they are in the preference lists of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Müge Fidan , Esra Erdem

Real-time parking occupancy information is valuable for guiding drivers' searching for parking spaces. Recently many parking detection systems using range-based on-vehicle sensors are invented, but they disregard the practical difficulty of…

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