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CP
1998
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Optimizing with Constraints: A Case Study in Scheduling Maintenance of Electric Power Units
A well-studied problem in the electric power industry is that of optimally scheduling preventative maintenance of power generating units within a power plant. We show how these pr...
Daniel Frost, Rina Dechter
FOCI
2007
IEEE
16 years 20 days ago
Faster Evolutionary Algorithms by Superior Graph Representation
— We present a new representation for individuals in problems that have cyclic permutations as solutions. To demonstrate its usefulness, we analyze a simple randomized local sear...
Benjamin Doerr, Christian Klein, Tobias Storch
EAAI
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
An agent-based approach to solve dynamic meeting scheduling problems with preferences
Multi-agent systems are widely used to address large-scale distributed combinatorial applications in the real world. One such application is meeting scheduling (MS), which is de...
Ahlem Ben Hassine, Tu Bao Ho
AAAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Randomized Adaptive Spatial Decoupling for Large-Scale Vehicle Routing with Time Windows
In recent years, the size of combinatorial applications and the need to produce high-quality solutions quickly have increased steadily, providing significant challenges for optim...
Russell Bent, Pascal Van Hentenryck
WCRE
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Applying Spectral Methods to Software Clustering
The application of spectral methods to the software clustering problem has the advantage of producing results that are within a known factor of the optimal solution. Heuristic sea...
Ali Shokoufandeh, Spiros Mancoridis, Matthew Mayco...