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CISS
2008
IEEE
16 years 28 days ago
Optimization via communication networks
— It has been known since the early 1990s that backpressure-type algorithms for communication networks (such as the Max-Weight algorithm) can be used to approximately solve stati...
Matthew Andrews
ICCSA
2005
Springer
15 years 12 months 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...
ECRTS
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Managing Multi-Mode Tasks with Time Cost and Quality Levels using Optimal Discrete Control Synthesis
Real-time control systems are complex to design, and automation support is important. We are interested in systems with multiple tasks, each with multiple modes, implementing a fu...
Hervé Marchand, Éric Rutten
IRREGULAR
1995
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Parallel Search for Combinatorial Optimization: Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search and GRASP
In this paper, we review parallel search techniques for approximating the global optimal solution of combinatorial optimization problems. Recent developments on parallel implementa...
Panos M. Pardalos, Leonidas S. Pitsoulis, Thelma D...
WSC
2004
15 years 7 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...