For half a century since computers came into existence, the goal of finding elegant and efficient algorithms to solve "simple" (welldefined and well-structured) problems ...
Abstract. A methodology is presented for tackling mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problems by local search, in particular large-scale real-life problems. This methodology is i...
We consider the problem of finding a door along a wall with a blind robot that neither knows the distance to the door nor the direction towards of the door. This problem can be so...
A family of recombination operators is studied in this work. These operators are based on keeping and using certain information about the past evolution of the algorithm to guide t...
Composition of stateful web services expressed in BPEL4WS can be recasted as a problem of planning in asynchronous domains. In (PTB05), this is pursued by encoding the asynchronou...
Piergiorgio Bertoli, Marco Pistore, Paolo Traverso