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GPEM
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Sporadic model building for efficiency enhancement of the hierarchical BOA
Efficiency enhancement techniques--such as parallelization and hybridization--are among the most important ingredients of practical applications of genetic and evolutionary algori...
Martin Pelikan, Kumara Sastry, David E. Goldberg
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GECCO
2006
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Multi-step environment learning classifier systems applied to hyper-heuristics
Heuristic Algorithms (HA) are very widely used to tackle practical problems in operations research. They are simple, easy to understand and inspire confidence. Many of these HAs a...
Javier G. Marín-Blázquez, Sonia Schu...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
137views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
An exact almost optimal algorithm for target set selection in social networks
The Target Set Selection problem proposed by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos, gives a nice clean combinatorial formulation for many problems arising in economy, sociology, and medicin...
Oren Ben-Zwi, Danny Hermelin, Daniel Lokshtanov, I...
PPSN
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
AUTOMATICA
2007
103views more  AUTOMATICA 2007»
15 years 7 months ago
Lexicographic perturbation for multiparametric linear programming with applications to control
Optimal control problems for constrained linear systems with a linear cost can be posed as multiparametric linear programs with a parameter in the cost, or equivalently the right-...
Colin Neil Jones, Eric C. Kerrigan, Jan M. Maciejo...