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AAAI
1998
15 years 7 months ago
"Squeaky Wheel" Optimization
We describe a general approach to optimization which we term Squeaky Wheel" Optimization SWO. In SWO, a greedy algorithm is used to construct a solution which is then analyze...
David Joslin, David P. Clements
ICDCS
2010
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Stochastic Steepest-Descent Optimization of Multiple-Objective Mobile Sensor Coverage
—We propose a steepest descent method to compute optimal control parameters for balancing between multiple performance objectives in stateless stochastic scheduling, wherein the ...
Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, Nung Kwan Yip, Na...
WWW
2003
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
A Context-Based Information Agent for Supporting Intelligent Distance Learning Environments
The large amount of information now available on the Web can play a prominent role in building a cooperative intelligent distance learning environment. We propose a system to prov...
Mohammed Abdel Razek, Claude Frasson, Marc Kaltenb...
GECCO
2008
Springer
182views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Scaling ant colony optimization with hierarchical reinforcement learning partitioning
This paper merges hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) with ant colony optimization (ACO) to produce a HRL ACO algorithm capable of generating solutions for large domains. Th...
Erik J. Dries, Gilbert L. Peterson
BMCBI
2005
119views more  BMCBI 2005»
15 years 6 months ago
The distance-profile representation and its application to detection of distantly related protein families
Background: Detecting homology between remotely related protein families is an important problem in computational biology since the biological properties of uncharacterized protei...
Chin-Jen Ku, Golan Yona