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IDA
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A comprehensive analysis of hyper-heuristics
Meta-heuristics such as simulated annealing, genetic algorithms and tabu search have been successfully applied to many difficult optimization problems for which no satisfactory pro...
Ender Özcan, Burak Bilgin, Emin Erkan Korkmaz
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SWAT
2004
Springer
78views Algorithms» more  SWAT 2004»
16 years 2 days ago
Online Maintenance of k-Medians and k-Covers on a Line
The standard dynamic programming solution to finding k-medians on a line with n nodes requires O(kn2 ) time. Dynamic programming speedup techniques, e.g., use of the quadrangle i...
Rudolf Fleischer, Mordecai J. Golin, Yan Zhang
AIPS
2011
14 years 10 months ago
Heuristic Search for Generalized Stochastic Shortest Path MDPs
Research in efficient methods for solving infinite-horizon MDPs has so far concentrated primarily on discounted MDPs and the more general stochastic shortest path problems (SSPs...
Andrey Kolobov, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld, Hector Gef...
SIGMOD
1996
ACM
120views Database» more  SIGMOD 1996»
15 years 11 months ago
Query Execution Techniques for Caching Expensive Methods
Object-Relational and Object-Oriented DBMSs allow users to invoke time-consuming ("expensive") methods in their queries. When queries containing these expensive methods a...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Jeffrey F. Naughton
EOR
2006
80views more  EOR 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Vehicle routing and crew scheduling for metropolitan mail distribution at Australia Post
This paper presents a new multi-depot combined vehicle and crew scheduling algorithm, and uses it, in conjunction with a heuristic vehicle routing algorithm, to solve the intra-ci...
B. L. Hollis, M. A. Forbes, B. E. Douglas