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PPSN
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Modeling Building-Block Interdependency
The Building-Block Hypothesis appeals to the notion of problem decomposition and the assembly of solutions from sub-solutions. Accordingly, there have been many varieties of GA tes...
Richard A. Watson, Gregory Hornby, Jordan B. Polla...
GECCO
2007
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Overcoming hierarchical difficulty by hill-climbing the building block structure
The Building Block Hypothesis suggests that Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are well-suited for hierarchical problems, where efficient solving requires proper problem decomposition and a...
David Iclanzan, Dan Dumitrescu
WSC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Design guidelines for simulation building blocks
Component based or building block based simulation model development is regularly mentioned as an interesting new development and a potential field of research. Most of the commer...
Alexander Verbraeck, Edwin Valentin
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Performance models for large scale multiagent systems: using distributed POMDP building blocks
Given a large group of cooperative agents, selecting the right coordination or conflict resolution strategy can have a significant impact on their performance (e.g., speed of co...
Hyuckchul Jung, Milind Tambe
JMLR
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Building Blocks for Variational Bayesian Learning of Latent Variable Models
We introduce standardised building blocks designed to be used with variational Bayesian learning. The blocks include Gaussian variables, summation, multiplication, nonlinearity, a...
Tapani Raiko, Harri Valpola, Markus Harva, Juha Ka...