Robust Software Partitioning with Multiple Instantiation

The purpose of software partitioning is to assign code segments of a given computer program to a range of execution locations such as general purpose processors or specialist hardware components. These execution locations differ in speed, communication characteristics, and in size. In particular, hardware components offering high speed tend to accommodate only few code segments. … Read more

Primal and dual linear decision rules in stochastic and robust optimization

Linear stochastic programming provides a flexible toolbox for analyzing real-life decision situations, but it can become computationally cumbersome when recourse decisions are involved. The latter are usually modelled as decision rules, i.e., functions of the uncertain problem data. It has recently been argued that stochastic programs can quite generally be made tractable by restricting the … Read more