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PATAT
2000
Springer
123views Education» more  PATAT 2000»
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A Multicriteria Approach to Examination Timetabling
The main aim of this paper is to consider university examination timetabling problems as multicriteria decision problems. A new multicriteria approach to solving such problems is p...
Edmund K. Burke, Yuri Bykov, Sanja Petrovic
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AAAI
1998
15 years 8 months ago
Supermodels and Robustness
When search techniques are used to solve a practical problem, the solution produced is often brittle in the sense that small execution difficulties can have an arbitrarily large e...
Matthew L. Ginsberg, Andrew J. Parkes, Amitabha Ro...
GECCO
2007
Springer
150views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
Overcoming hierarchical difficulty by hill-climbing the building block structure
The Building Block Hypothesis suggests that Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are well-suited for hierarchical problems, where efficient solving requires proper problem decomposition and a...
David Iclanzan, Dan Dumitrescu
TEC
2010
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15 years 1 months ago
Chemical-Reaction-Inspired Metaheuristic for Optimization
-- We encounter optimization problems in our daily lives and in various research domains. Some of them are so hard that we can, at best, approximate the best solutions with (meta-)...
Albert Y. S. Lam, Victor O. K. Li
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UC
2005
Springer
16 years 9 days ago
On Formulations of Firing Squad Synchronization Problems
Abstract. We propose a novel formulation of the firing squad synchronization problem. In this formulation we may use more than one general state and the general state to be used i...
Kojiro Kobayashi, Darin Goldstein