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Efstratios Rappos

HEIG-VD, Switzerland
Verified email at heig-vd.ch
Cited by 103

A mixed-integer programming approach for solving university course timetabling problems

E Rappos, E Thiémard, S Robert, JF Hêche - Journal of Scheduling, 2022 - Springer
This article presents a mixed-integer programming model for solving the university timetabling
problem which considers the allocation of students to classes and the assignment of …

A force-directed approach for offline GPS trajectory map matching

E Rappos, S Robert, P Cudré-Mauroux - Proceedings of the 26th ACM …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We present a novel algorithm to match GPS trajectories onto maps offline (in batch mode)
using techniques borrowed from the field of force-directed graph drawing. We consider a …

Bit. ly/practice: Uncovering content publishing and sharing through URL shortening services

D Choi, J Han, S Chun, E Rappos, S Robert… - Telematics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
It becomes the norm for people to share online content such as images, videos, and news
over various channels including online social networks, news media, or online communities. …

[PDF][PDF] Optimized automated university timetabling with Covid-19 social distancing restrictions

E Rappos, P Donini - patatconference.org
This extended abstract article describes the impact of the COVID-19 health restrictions in
the teaching activities at the HEIG-VD university in Switzerland and the way that teaching …

Chain-structured neural architecture search for financial time series forecasting

D Levchenko, E Rappos, S Ataee, B Nigro… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Neural architecture search (NAS) emerged as a way to automatically optimize neural networks
for a specific task and dataset. Despite an abundance of research on NAS for images and …

Using GPU Simulation to Accurately Fit to the Power-Law Distribution

E Rappos, S Robert - arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6738, 2013 - arxiv.org
This article describes a methodology for fitting experimental data to the discrete power-law
distribution and provides the results of a detailed simulation exercise used to calculate …

Predictive caching in computer grids

E Rappos, S Robert - … Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a model for predictive caching where a shared cache is used to improve performance
across a grid. Unlike local caching mechanisms, shared, grid or cloud-based caches …

An ant colony heuristic for the design of two-edge connected flow networks

E Rappos, E Hadjiconstantinou - … on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm …, 2004 - Springer
We consider the problem of designing a reliable network defined as follows: Given an
undirected graph, the objective of the problem is to find a minimum cost network configuration …

A cloud data center optimization approach using dynamic data interchanges

E Rappos, S Robert, RH Riedi - 2013 IEEE 2nd International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed data center architectures have been recently developed for a more efficient and
economical storage of data. In many models of distributed storage, the aim is to store the …

An integer programming approach to optimize Housing Benefit data retrieval

E Rappos, EB Thompson - Journal of the Operational Research …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents an integer programming approach to a practical problem faced by
analysts in the Department for Work and Pensions working with Housing Benefit (HB) data. It …