Abstract: One of the most natural optimization problems is the k-SET PACKING problem, where given a family of sets of size at most k one should select a maximum size subfamily of pairwise disjoint ...

Abstract: Clouds, such as Amazon Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds and EMC Hybrid Cloud, impose growing requirements of resource-efficiency scheduling. The bounded flexible scheduling (BFS) ...

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Below, Melissa Swift shares five key insights from her new book, Effective: How to Do Great Work in a Fast-Changing World.

Collisional resistivity saturation has a hard quantum ceiling, a University of Toronto experiment shows: ultracold ...