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GECCO
2005
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Harmony search for structural design
Various algorithms have been developed and applied to structural optimization, in which cross-sectional areas of structure members are assumed to be continuous. In most cases of p...
Zong Woo Geem, Kang Seok Lee, Chung-Li Tseng
IWANN
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Speeding Up the Dissimilarity Self-Organizing Maps by Branch and Bound
Abstract. This paper proposes to apply the branch and bound principle from combinatorial optimization to the Dissimilarity Self-Organizing Map (DSOM), a variant of the SOM that can...
Brieuc Conan-Guez, Fabrice Rossi
COCOON
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On the Hardness of Optimization in Power Law Graphs
Our motivation for this work is the remarkable discovery that many large-scale real-world graphs ranging from Internet and World Wide Web to social and biological networks exhibit ...
Alessandro Ferrante, Gopal Pandurangan, Kihong Par...
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
On improving approximate solutions by evolutionary algorithms
Abstract—Hybrid methods are very popular for solving problems from combinatorial optimization. In contrast to this the theoretical understanding of the interplay of different opt...
Tobias Friedrich, Jun He, Nils Hebbinghaus, Frank ...
APSCC
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
An Agent Scheduling Optimization for Call Centers
A suitable assignment of agents to handle the workload at a call center is not easy to fulfill because it requires a combinatorial optimization with large solution space and the n...
Chiaki Hishinuma, Masaaki Kanakubo, Takuma Goto
GECCO
2009
Springer
121views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Evolutionary algorithms and dynamic programming
Recently, it has been proven that evolutionary algorithms produce good results for a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. Some of the considered problems are tackled...
Benjamin Doerr, Anton Eremeev, Christian Horoba, F...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A differential geometric approach to discrete-coefficient filter design
This paper is concerned with the problem of computing a discretecoefficient approximation to a digital filter. In contrast to earlier works that have approached this problem usi...
Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Lothar Wenzel, James Nagl...