The examination scheduling problem has been examined and a four-phase system using a tabu search algorithm, OTTABU, has been implemented. This system uses both recency-based short-...
Abstract The Examination Timetabling problem regards the scheduling for the exams of a set of university courses, avoiding the overlapping of exams having students in common, fairl...
Abstract The problem of finding a global optimum of an unconstrained multimodal function has been the subject of intensive study in recent years, giving rise to valuable advances ...
Recently, a form of memory usage was introduced for genetic programming (GP) called “soft memory.” Rather than have a new value completely overwrite the old value in a registe...
This paper examines the driving and opposing forces that are governing the current paradigm shift from a data-processing information technology environment without software intell...