3 papers
cs.DS2026
A Consistency-Robustness Framework for Robust Optimization: Integrating Predictions into Robust Scheduling
Yasser Alghouass, Eric Balkanski, Nicole Megow +1
Robust optimization protects against uncertainty by optimizing for the worst case over a prescribed uncertainty set. This protection can be overly conservative when forecasts, hist…
math.DS2026
Bucket Brigades: Uniqueness of the Fixed Point and Three-Worker Asymptotics
Yasser Alghouass, Abderrahmane Driouch, Mohammed Lagmah +1
A standard organization of production lines exhibiting self-balancing behavior is given by bucket brigades. Their study in operations research was initiated by the foundational wor…
cs.NE2025
Proven Approximation Guarantees in Multi-Objective Optimization: SPEA2 Beats NSGA-II
Yasser Alghouass, Benjamin Doerr, Martin S. Krejca +1
Together with the NSGA-II and SMS-EMOA, the strength Pareto evolutionary algorithm 2 (SPEA2) is one of the most prominent dominance-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (M…