TSMC
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
Abstract--The multimode resource-constrained projectscheduling problem with discounted cash flows (MRCPSPDCF) is important and challenging for project management. As the problem is...
BMCBI
2005
13 years 5 months ago
2005
Background: The protein folding problem is a fundamental problems in computational molecular biology and biochemical physics. Various optimisation methods have been applied to for...
HEURISTICS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
This paper investigates the capabilities of the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) meta-heuristic for solving the maximum clique problem, the goal of which is to find a largest set of ...
GECCO
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper merges hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) with ant colony optimization (ACO) to produce a HRL ACO algorithm capable of generating solutions for large domains. Th...
ANTSW
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Abstract. Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a metaheuristic that produces good results for a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. Often such successful applications us...
EVOW
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Springer
Ant Colony Optimization is an evolutionary method that has recently been applied to scheduling problems. We propose an ACO algorithm for the Single Machine Total Weighted Tardiness...
EUROCAST
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract Model Checking is a well-known and fully automatic technique for checking software properties, usually given as temporal logic formulas on the program variables. Most of m...
AI
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
The prediction of a protein’s structure from its amino-acid sequence is one of the most important problems in computational biology. In the current focus on a widely studied abst...
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
Most Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithms are able to find a single (or few) optimal, or near-optimal, solutions to difficult (NP-hard) problems. An issue though is that a s...