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Three tabu search methods for the MI-FAP applied to 802.11 networks

Sacha Varone, Nicolas Zufferey (2008)

RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle

Wireless LAN using IEEE 802.11 networks are now widely deployed at home by residential users or in hot spots by telecommunication operators. A hot spot is a place where a set of access points (APs) are located nearby each other and can serve many users. Since perturbations can degrade the quality of the signal, a careful channel assignment to each AP has to be done. Channel assignment of APs at hot spots, and more generally setup configuration and management, is still often done manually. In this...

Three tabu search methods for the MI-FAP applied to 802.11 networks

Sacha Varone, Nicolas Zufferey (2009)

RAIRO - Operations Research

Wireless LAN using IEEE 802.11 networks are now widely deployed at home by residential users or in hot spots by telecommunication operators. A hot spot is a place where a set of access points (APs) are located nearby each other and can serve many users. Since perturbations can degrade the quality of the signal, a careful channel assignment to each AP has to be done. Channel assignment of APs at hot spots, and more generally setup configuration and management, is still often done manually. In this...

Tilt stability in nonlinear programming under Mangasarian-Fromovitz constraint qualification

Boris S. Mordukhovich, Jiří V. Outrata (2013)

Kybernetika

The paper concerns the study of tilt stability of local minimizers in standard problems of nonlinear programming. This notion plays an important role in both theoretical and numerical aspects of optimization and has drawn a lot of attention in optimization theory and its applications, especially in recent years. Under the classical Mangasarian-Fromovitz Constraint Qualification, we establish relationships between tilt stability and some other stability notions in constrained optimization. Involving...

Timed Petri-net based formulation and an algorithm for the optimal scheduling of batch plants

Tianlong Gu, Parisa Bahri, Guoyong Cai (2003)

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

The effective scheduling of operations in batch plants has a great potential for high economic returns, in which the formulation and an optimal solution algorithm are the main issues of study. Petri nets have proven to be a promising technique for solving many difficult problems associated with the modelling, formal analysis, design and coordination control of discrete-event systems. One of the major advantages of using a Petri-net model is that the same model can be used for the analysis of behavioural...

Time–dependent Simple Temporal Networks: Properties and Algorithms

Cédric Pralet, Gérard Verfaillie (2013)

RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle

Simple Temporal Networks (STN) allow conjunctions of minimum and maximum distance constraints between pairs of temporal positions to be represented. This paper introduces an extension of STN called Time–dependent STN (TSTN), which covers temporal constraints for which the minimum and maximum distances required between two temporal positions x and y are not necessarily constant but may depend on the assignments of x and y. Such constraints are useful to model problems in which the duration of an...

Time-varying Markov decision processes with state-action-dependent discount factors and unbounded costs

Beatris A. Escobedo-Trujillo, Carmen G. Higuera-Chan (2019)

Kybernetika

In this paper we are concerned with a class of time-varying discounted Markov decision models n with unbounded costs c n and state-action dependent discount factors. Specifically we study controlled systems whose state process evolves according to the equation x n + 1 = G n ( x n , a n , ξ n ) , n = 0 , 1 , ... , with state-action dependent discount factors of the form α n ( x n , a n ) , where a n and ξ n are the control and the random disturbance at time n , respectively. Assuming that the sequences of functions { α n } , { c n } and { G n } converge, in certain sense, to α , c and G , our...

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