Abstract: This paper considers an unrelated parallel machine problem with job release times and maintenance activities, in which machines have to periodically undergo maintenance since the status of ...

Abstract: Equality-constrained quadratic programming (QP) has been one of the most basic and typical problems in the Internet of Things domain. In big data scenarios, how to quickly and accurately ...

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