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GECCO
2005
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
A genetic algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicle routing
Genetic Algorithms (GAs) can efficiently produce high quality results for hard combinatorial real world problems such as the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). Genetic Vehicle Represe...
Matthew A. Russell, Gary B. Lamont
EUROGP
2006
Springer
110views Optimization» more  EUROGP 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Blindbuilder: A New Encoding to Evolve Lego-Like Structures
This paper introduces a new representation for assemblies of small Lego -like elements: structures are indirectly encoded as construction plans. This representation shows some inte...
Alexandre Devert, Nicolas Bredeche, Marc Schoenaue...
GECCO
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Towards a Generally Applicable Self-Adapting Hybridization of Evolutionary Algorithms
When applied to real-world problems, the powerful optimization tool of Evolutionary Algorithms frequently turns out to be too time-consuming due to elaborate fitness calculations t...
Wilfried Jakob, Christian Blume, Georg Bretthauer
UAI
1998
15 years 7 months ago
Flexible Decomposition Algorithms for Weakly Coupled Markov Decision Problems
This paper presents two new approaches to decomposing and solving large Markov decision problems (MDPs), a partial decoupling method and a complete decoupling method. In these app...
Ronald Parr
ACCV
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Robust Photometric Stereo via Low-Rank Matrix Completion and Recovery
We present a new approach to robustly solve photometric stereo problems. We cast the problem of recovering surface normals from multiple lighting conditions as a problem of recover...
Lun Wu, Arvind Ganesh, Boxin Shi, Yasuyuki Matsush...