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EOR
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Speeding up continuous GRASP
Continuous GRASP (C-GRASP) is a stochastic local search metaheuristic for finding cost-efficient solutions to continuous global optimization problems subject to box constraints (Hi...
Michael J. Hirsch, Panos M. Pardalos, Mauricio G. ...
GECCO
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards a Generally Applicable Self-Adapting Hybridization of Evolutionary Algorithms
When applied to real-world problems, the powerful optimization tool of Evolutionary Algorithms frequently turns out to be too time-consuming due to elaborate fitness calculations t...
Wilfried Jakob, Christian Blume, Georg Bretthauer
GECCO
2009
Springer
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13 years 3 months ago
Uncertainty handling CMA-ES for reinforcement learning
The covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMAES) has proven to be a powerful method for reinforcement learning (RL). Recently, the CMA-ES has been augmented with an ada...
Verena Heidrich-Meisner, Christian Igel
MEMETIC
2010
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12 years 12 months ago
Iterated local search with Powell's method: a memetic algorithm for continuous global optimization
In combinatorial solution spaces Iterated Local Search (ILS) turns out to be exceptionally successful. The question arises: is ILS also capable of improving the optimization proces...
Oliver Kramer
ISCAS
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Multiobjective VLSI cell placement using distributed simulated evolution algorithm
— Simulated Evolution (SimE) is a sound stochastic approximation algorithm based on the principles of adaptation. If properly engineered it is possible for SimE to reach nearopti...
Sadiq M. Sait, Ali Mustafa Zaidi, Mustafa I. Ali