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2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Improving Metaheuristic Performance by Evolving a Variable Fitness Function
In this paper we study a complex real world workforce scheduling problem. We apply constructive search and variable neighbourhood search (VNS) metaheuristics and enhance these meth...
Keshav P. Dahal, Stephen Remde, Peter I. Cowling, ...
CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Enhanced Direct and Indirect Genetic Algorithm Approaches for a Mall Layout and Tenant Selection Problem
During our earlier research, it was recognised that in order to be successful with an indirect genetic algorithm approach using a decoder, the decoder has to strike a balance betw...
Uwe Aickelin, Kathryn A. Dowsland
DISOPT
2008
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15 years 5 months ago
Group sequencing around a common due date
The problem of scheduling groups of jobs on a single machine under the group technology assumption is studied. Jobs of the same group are processed contiguously and a sequence ind...
T. C. Edwin Cheng, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov, C. T. Ng, ...
CNSR
2007
IEEE
104views Communications» more  CNSR 2007»
16 years 20 days ago
Performance Analysis of Web Service Replica Selection in an Extranet
Providing web service replicas improves the overall system performance and redundancy for hardware failures. In Business-to-Business, this may be particularly interesting for orga...
Partheeban Chandrasekaran, Shikharesh Majumdar, Ch...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
16 years 19 days ago
Multiconstrained QoS Routing: Greedy is Good
— A fundamental problem in quality-of-service (QoS) routing is to find a path connecting a source node to a destination node that satisfies K ≥ 2 additive QoS constraints. Th...
Guoliang Xue, Weiyi Zhang