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AUSAI
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Dynamic Agent Ordering in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems
The distributed constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a general formalisation used to represent problems in distributed multiagent systems. To deal with realistic problems, mult...
Lingzhong Zhou, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar
CP
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Simple Distribution-Free Approach to the Max k-Armed Bandit Problem
The max k-armed bandit problem is a recently-introduced online optimization problem with practical applications to heuristic search. Given a set of k slot machines, each yielding p...
Matthew J. Streeter, Stephen F. Smith
COR
2010
150views more  COR 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Black box scatter search for general classes of binary optimization problems
The purpose of this paper is to apply the scatter search methodology to general classes of binary problems. We focus on optimization problems for which the solutions are represent...
Francisco Gortázar, Abraham Duarte, Manuel ...
VLDB
2002
ACM
157views Database» more  VLDB 2002»
16 years 6 months ago
A formal perspective on the view selection problem
The view selection problem is to choose a set of views to materialize over a database schema, such that the cost of evaluating a set of workload queries is minimized and such that ...
Rada Chirkova, Alon Y. Halevy, Dan Suciu
GECCO
2009
Springer
133views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Evolutionary codings and operators for the terminal assignment problem
Given a collection of terminals, each with a demand, a collection of concentrators, each with a capacity, and costs of connecting the terminals to the concentrators, the terminal ...
Bryant A. Julstrom