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Bid optimization is now becoming quite popular in sponsored search auctions on the Web. Given a keyword and the maximum willingness to pay of each advertiser interested in the keyword, the bid optimizer generates a profile of bids for the advertisers with the objective of maximizing customer retention without compromising the revenue of the search engine. In this paper, we present a bid optimization...
An off-site system in a petroleum refining plant mainly consists of storage tanks, gasoline component blenders, and a pipe network that connects tanks with blenders. Therefore, in order to produce a required gasoline on time, these equipments have to be selected and used appropriately at the right time. However, previous studies have not taken into account the pipe network. In this paper, a novel...
This paper addresses the problem of the joint location and configuration of mobile service robots in hospitals. The robotic system consists of a set of identical base robots that can be configured with different functional modules. The robotic system is designed to perform a set of nursing and logistic activities, each requiring a robot with specific modules. The problem consists of determining the...
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