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ASIAMS
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Optimization of a Kraft Pulping System: Using Particle Swarm Optimization and Differential Evolution
Expectation of profit is the economic driving force motivating business activity in a free-enterprise economy. An increase in this profit for a given organization can be accomplis...
Millie Pant, Radha Thangaraj, Ajith Abraham
EMO
2003
Springer
162views Optimization» more  EMO 2003»
15 years 12 months ago
PISA: A Platform and Programming Language Independent Interface for Search Algorithms
This paper introduces an interface specification (PISA) that allows to separate the problem-specific part of an optimizer from the problem-independent part. We propose a view of ...
Stefan Bleuler, Marco Laumanns, Lothar Thiele, Eck...
WDAG
2004
Springer
86views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2004»
15 years 12 months ago
Message-Optimal and Latency-Optimal Termination Detection Algorithms for Arbitrary Topologies
An important problem in distributed systems is to detect termination of a distributed computation. A computation is said to have terminated when all processes have become passive ...
Neeraj Mittal, Subbarayan Venkatesan, Sathya Peri
SODA
1992
ACM
252views Algorithms» more  SODA 1992»
15 years 7 months ago
A General Approximation Technique for Constrained Forest Problems
We present a general approximation technique for a large class of graph problems. Our technique mostly applies to problems of covering, at minimum cost, the vertices of a graph wit...
Michel X. Goemans, David P. Williamson
GECCO
2008
Springer
238views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Using multiple offspring sampling to guide genetic algorithms to solve permutation problems
The correct choice of an evolutionary algorithm, a genetic representation for the problem being solved (as well as their associated variation operators) and the appropriate values...
Antonio LaTorre, José Manuel Peña, V...