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1996
ACM
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Towards an Analysis of Local Optimization Algorithms
We introduce a variant of Aldous and Vazirani's \Go with the winners" algorithm that can be used for search graphs that are not trees. We analyze the algorithm in terms ...
Tassos Dimitriou, Russell Impagliazzo
AI
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Towards a Characterisation of the Behaviour of Stochastic Local Search Algorithms for SAT
Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms have been successfully applied to hard combinatorial problems from different domains. Due to their inherent randomness, the run-time behav...
Holger H. Hoos, Thomas Stützle
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Know Thy Neighbor: Towards Optimal Mapping of Contacts to Social Graphs for DTN Routing
—Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN) are networks of self-organizing wireless nodes, where end-to-end connectivity is intermittent. In these networks, forwarding decisions are generall...
Theus Hossmann, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, Franck L...
CEC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Optimization of the sizing of a solar thermal electricity plant: Mathematical programming versus genetic algorithms
— Genetic algorithms (GAs) have been argued to constitute a flexible search thereby enabling to solve difficult problems which classical optimization methodologies may find ha...
Jose M. Cabello, Jose M. Cejudo, Mariano Luque, Fr...