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EVOW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Evolving Approximate Image Filters
Image filtering involves taking a digital image and producing a new image from it. In software packages such as Adobe’s Photoshop, image filters are used to produce artistic ve...
Simon Colton, Pedro Torres
EVOW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Predicting Turning Points in Financial Markets with Fuzzy-Evolutionary and Neuro-Evolutionary Modeling
Two independent evolutionary modeling methods, based on fuzzy logic and neural networks respectively, are applied to predicting trend reversals in financial time series, and their...
Antonia Azzini, Célia da Costa Pereira, And...
EVOW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Life's What You Make: Niche Construction and Evolutionary Art
This paper advances new methods for ecosystemic approaches to evolutionary music and art. We explore the biological concept of the niche and its role in evolutionary dynamics, appl...
Jon McCormack, Oliver Bown
EVOW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
University Course Timetabling with Genetic Algorithm: A Laboratory Excercises Case Study
Abstract. This paper describes the application of a hybrid genetic algorithm to a real-world instance of the university course timetabling problem. We address the timetabling of la...
Zlatko Bratkovic, Tomislav Herman, Vjera Omrcen, M...
EVOW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Binary Exponential Back Off for Tabu Tenure in Hyperheuristics
In this paper we propose a new tabu search hyperheuristic which makes individual low level heuristics tabu dynamically using an analogy with the Binary Exponential Back Off (BEBO) ...
Stephen Remde, Keshav P. Dahal, Peter I. Cowling, ...
EVOW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Iterated Local Search for Minimum Power Symmetric Connectivity in Wireless Networks
The problem of finding a symmetric connectivity topology with minimum power consumption in a wireless ad-hoc network is NPhard. This work presents a new iterated local search to s...
Steffen Wolf, Peter Merz
EVOW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Improving Performance in Combinatorial Optimisation Using Averaging and Clustering
In a recent paper an algorithm for solving MAX-SAT was proposed which worked by clustering good solutions and restarting the search from the closest feasible solutions. This was sh...
Mohamed Qasem, Adam Prügel-Bennett
EVOW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Hybrid Algorithm for Computing Tours in a Spare Parts Warehouse
We consider a real-world problem arising in a warehouse for spare parts. Items ordered by customers shall be collected and for this purpose our task is to determine efficient picku...
Matthias Prandtstetter, Günther R. Raidl, Tho...
EVOW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Tabu Search Algorithm with Direct Representation for Strip Packing
Abstract. This paper introduces a new tabu search algorithm for a twodimensional (2D) Strip Packing Problem (2D-SPP). It integrates several key features: A direct representation of...
Jean-Philippe Hamiez, Julien Robet, Jin-Kao Hao
EVOW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Diversity Control and Multi-Parent Recombination for Evolutionary Graph Coloring Algorithms
We present a hybrid evolutionary algorithm for the graph coloring problem (Evocol). Evocol is based on two simple-but-effective ideas. First, we use an enhanced crossover that col...
Daniel Cosmin Porumbel, Jin-Kao Hao, Pascale Kuntz