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TEC
2010
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13 years 1 days ago
A Hybrid Evolutionary Approach to the Nurse Rostering Problem
Nurse rostering is a difficult search problem with many constraints. In the literature, a number of approaches have been investigated including penalty function methods to tackle t...
Ruibin Bai, Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall, Jingp...
CP
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Optimal Anytime Constrained Simulated Annealing for Constrained Global Optimization
Abstract. In this paper we propose an optimal anytime version of constrained simulated annealing (CSA) for solving constrained nonlinear programming problems (NLPs). One of the goa...
Benjamin W. Wah, Yixin Chen
APIN
1999
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13 years 5 months ago
Evolutionary Approaches to Figure-Ground Separation
The problem of figure-ground separation is tackled from the perspective of combinatorial optimization. Previous attempts have used deterministic optimization techniques based on re...
Suchendra M. Bhandarkar, Xia Zeng
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Meta-heuristics for Circuit Partitioning in Parallel Test Generation
In this communication Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms, are applied to the graph partitioning problem. These techniques mimic processes in statistical mechanics and biol...
Consolación Gil, Julio Ortega, Antonio F. D...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Registration of Range Data Using a Hybrid Simulated Annealing and Iterative Closest Point Algorithm
The need to register data is abundant in applications such as: world modeling, part inspection and manufacturing, object recognition, pose estimation, robotic navigation, and reve...
Jason P. Luck, Charles Q. Little, William Hoff