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ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
Negative thinking by incremental problem solving: application to unate covering
We introduce a new technique to solve exactly a discrete optimization problem, based on the paradigm of “negative” thinking. The motivation is that when searching the space of...
Evguenii I. Goldberg, Luca P. Carloni, Tiziano Vil...
ICALP
2009
Springer
16 years 6 months ago
Correlation Clustering Revisited: The "True" Cost of Error Minimization Problems
Correlation Clustering was defined by Bansal, Blum, and Chawla as the problem of clustering a set of elements based on a possibly inconsistent binary similarity function between e...
Nir Ailon, Edo Liberty
ATAL
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Easy and hard coalition resource game formation problems: a parameterized complexity analysis
Coalition formation is a key topic in multi–agent systems (mas). Coalitions enable agents to achieve goals that they may not have been able to achieve independently, and encoura...
Tammar Shrot, Yonatan Aumann, Sarit Kraus
ATAL
2005
Springer
16 years 4 days ago
Improving reinforcement learning function approximators via neuroevolution
Reinforcement learning problems are commonly tackled with temporal difference methods, which use dynamic programming and statistical sampling to estimate the long-term value of ta...
Shimon Whiteson
ESA
2006
Springer
126views Algorithms» more  ESA 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Cooperative TSP
In this paper we introduce and study cooperative variants of the Traveling Salesperson Problem. In these problems a salesperson has to make deliveries to customers who are willing ...
Amitai Armon, Adi Avidor, Oded Schwartz