A cost-oriented approach for infrastructural design

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1431-1437

  Ardagna, Danilo ^a   Francalanci, Chiara ^a   Trubian, Marco ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cost minimization; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; HEURISTIC METHODS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COST MINIMIZATION; COST-PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; INFRASTRUCTURAL DESIGN; TABU-SEARCH;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 2442628477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/967900.968187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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