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ANOR
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
The minimum shift design problem
The min-SHIFT DESIGN problem (MSD) is an important scheduling problem that needs to be solved in many industrial contexts. The issue is to find a minimum number of shifts and the...
Luca Di Gaspero, Johannes Gärtner, Guy Kortsa...
AE
2007
Springer
16 years 25 days ago
An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Block Stacking Problem
Abstract. How has a stack of n blocks to be arranged in order to maximize its overhang over a table edge while being stable? This question can be seen as an example application for...
Tim Hohm, Matthias Egli, Samuel Gaehwiler, Stefan ...
AI
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
An Improved Ant Colony Optimisation Algorithm for the 2D HP Protein Folding Problem
The prediction of a protein’s structure from its amino-acid sequence is one of the most important problems in computational biology. In the current focus on a widely studied abst...
Alena Shmygelska, Holger H. Hoos
CP
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Simple Distribution-Free Approach to the Max k-Armed Bandit Problem
The max k-armed bandit problem is a recently-introduced online optimization problem with practical applications to heuristic search. Given a set of k slot machines, each yielding p...
Matthew J. Streeter, Stephen F. Smith
GECCO
2006
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
The quadratic multiple knapsack problem and three heuristic approaches to it
The quadratic multiple knapsack problem extends the quadratic knapsack problem with K knapsacks, each with its own capacity Ck. A greedy heuristic fills the knapsacks one at a tim...
Amanda Hiley, Bryant A. Julstrom