Abstract—Some real-world optimization problems have hundreds or even thousands of decision variables. However, the effect that the scalability of parameters has in modern multiob...
ct 8 Harmony search (HS) is a new meta-heuristic optimization method imitating the music improvisation process where 9 musicians improvise their instruments' pitches searching...
Background. Recent studies have shown that Support Vector Regression (SVR) has an interesting potential in the field of effort estimation. However applying SVR requires to careful...
Anna Corazza, Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci...
“Peer-to-peer” systems like Napster and Gnutella have recently become popular for sharing information. In this paper, we study the relevant issues and tradeoffs in designing a...
In order to maintain a reliable and economic electric power supply, the maintenance of power plants is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, a formulation that enables a...