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Mini-bucket Elimination with Bucket Propagation

Many important combinatorial optimization problems can be expressed as constraint satisfaction problems with soft constraints. When problems are too difficult to be solved exactly, approximation methods become the best option. Mini-bucket Elimination (MBE) is a well known approximation method for combinatorial optimization problems. It has a control parameter z that allow us to trade time and s...

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The Token Bucket Allocation and Reallocation Problems ( MPRASE Token Bucket )

This paper deals with the dimensioning of token buckets. Two related problems are formulated and solved. The first is the token bucket allocation problem (TBAP) which is finding the cost-minimal token bucket for the transmission of a given VBR traffic stream, e.g. an MPEG movie, from the user's point of view. This problem has been treated in literature before but as we will show not completely....

Geometric Bucket Trees: Analysis of Linear Bucket Tree

We analyse the average number of buckets in a Linear Bucket tree created by n points uniformly dispatched on an interval of length y. A new bucket is created when a point does not fall in an existing bucket. The bucket is the interval of length 2 centered on the point. We illustrate this concept by an interesting tale of how the moon’s surface took on its present form. Thanks to an explicit Lap...

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