In this work we extend the work of Dean, Kaelbling, Kirman and Nicholson on planning under time constraints in stochastic domains to handle more complicated scheduling problems. I...
Abstract-- Due to the development of Next Generation Networks, leading to a multiservice transport layer with a multidomain environment, the importance of interconnection issues ke...
In this paper, we introduce a new crossover operator for the permutation representation of a GA. This new operator-Non-Wrapping Order Crossover (NWOX)--is a variation of the well-...
This paper2 details the stages of building a substantial, carefully specified, fully tested and fully operational university and school timetabling system. This is reported as a c...
The concept of a hyperheuristic is introduced as an approach rates at a higher lever of abstraction than current metaheuristic approaches. The hyperheuristic manages the choice of ...