Objectives Elective non-emergent surgical wait times have increased across countries such as Canada, straining operating room ...

Combinatorial optimization problems are often encountered in real-world applications, including logistics, scheduling and ...

Abstract: In this study, we investigate the task scheduling problem for multiple earth observation satellites (EOSs) to achieve the maximal task observation ratio with the least repeated tasks. To ...

Abstract: Due to the complicated data dependencies between the tasks in a workflow application and the heterogeneous resources in edge-cloud environments, it is difficult to select an optimal ...