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ICCSA
2005
Springer
16 years 11 days ago
Comparison of Global Optimization Methods for Drag Reduction in the Automotive Industry
Various global optimization methods are compared in order to find the best strategy to solve realistic drag reduction problems in the automotive industry. All the methods consist ...
Laurent Dumas, Vincent Herbert, Frédé...
IDEAL
2005
Springer
16 years 11 days ago
Designing an Optimal Network Using the Cross-Entropy Method
Consider a network of unreliable links, each of which comes with a certain price and reliability. Given a fixed budget, which links should be bought in order to maximize the syste...
Sho Nariai, Kin-Ping Hui, Dirk P. Kroese
IPPS
1997
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Work-Time Optimal K-Merge Algorithms on the PRAM
The k-merge problem, given a collection of k, (2  k  n), sorted sequences of total length n, asks to merge them into a new sorted sequence. The main contribution of this work is...
Tatsuya Hayashi, Koji Nakano, Stephan Olariu
GECCO
2006
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Genetic algorithms and mixed integer linear programs for optimal strategies in a student's "sports" activity
This paper uses an entertaining student "sports" game to illustrate that GAs can be adapted to problems with uncertain properties and complexity. These problems can be s...
Thomas Butter, Franz Rothlauf, Jörn Grahl, To...
WSC
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Efficient Simulation-Based Discrete Optimization
In many practical applications of simulation it is desirable to optimize the levels of integer or binary variables that are inputs for the simulation model. In these cases, the ob...
Seth D. Guikema, Rachel A. Davidson, Zehra Ç...