Proportional Optimization and Fairness: Applications

Event details
Date | 26.05.2009 |
Hour | 10:15 |
Speaker | Prof. Wieslaw Kubiak, Memorial University, St. Johns, Canada |
Location |
CM 0 11
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Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The problem of allocating resources in proportion to some measure has been studied in various fields of science for a long time. The apportionment problem of allocating seats in a parliament is in proportion to the number of votes obtained by political parties is one example. This presentation will show a number of other real-life problems, for instance Liu-Layland problem, stride scheduling, fair queuing which can be formulated and solved as the problem of proportional optimization and fairness.
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- General public
- Free
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- M. Ruegg