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CEC
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Optimization of the sizing of a solar thermal electricity plant: Mathematical programming versus genetic algorithms
— Genetic algorithms (GAs) have been argued to constitute a flexible search thereby enabling to solve difficult problems which classical optimization methodologies may find ha...
Jose M. Cabello, Jose M. Cejudo, Mariano Luque, Fr...
WSC
2007
15 years 9 months ago
IFAO-SIMO: a spatial-simulation based facility network optimization framework
This paper describes an innovative framework, iFAOSimo, which integrates optimization, simulation and GIS (geographic information system) techniques to handle complex spatial faci...
Ming Xie, Wei Wang, Wen Jun Yin, Jin Dong
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Heuristics for the Design and Optimization of Streaming Content Distribution Networks
Abstract— The design of efficient and scalable streaming Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) is an open problem of great economic interest. A key decision is the number of repl...
Sandjai Bhulai, Robert D. van der Mei, Mengxiao Wu
CRV
2009
IEEE
153views Robotics» more  CRV 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Optimal Online Data Sampling or How to Hire the Best Secretaries
The problem of online sampling of data, can be seen as a generalization of the classical secretary problem. The goal is to maximize the probability of picking the k highest scorin...
Yogesh Girdhar, Gregory Dudek
PPSN
2004
Springer
16 years 6 days ago
Constrained Evolutionary Optimization by Approximate Ranking and Surrogate Models
Abstract. The paper describes an evolutionary algorithm for the general nonlinear programming problem using a surrogate model. Surrogate models are used in optimization when model ...
Thomas Philip Runarsson