JUCS
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
: Although usability evaluations have been focused on assessing different contexts of use, no proper specifications have been addressed towards the particular environment of academ...
JAIR
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
This paper presents a new framework for anytime heuristic search where the task is to achieve as many goals as possible within the allocated resources. We show the inadequacy of t...
JAIR
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Fast Downward is a classical planning system based on heuristic search. It can deal with general deterministic planning problems encoded in the propositional fragment of PDDL2.2, ...
JAL
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
An important class of heuristics for constraint satisfaction problems works by sampling information during search in order to inform subsequent decisions. One of these strategies, ...
COR
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
In this paper we apply a heuristic method based on artificial neural networks (NN) in order to trace out the efficient frontier associated to the portfolio selection problem. We...
EOR
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
The repair kit problem is that of finding the optimal set of parts in the kit of a repairman. An important aspect of this problem, in many real-life situations, is that several jo...
EOR
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
The problem of routing and wavelength assignment in all-optical networks may be solved by a combined approach involving the computation of alternative routes for the lightpaths, f...
ENTCS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
New heuristics and strategies have enabled major advancements in SAT solving in recent years. However, experimentation has shown that there is no winning solution that works in al...
COR
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
In this paper, we study a bidding problem which can be modeled as a set packing problem. A simulated annealing heuristic with three local moves, including an embedded branch-and-b...
HEURISTICS
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Instruction scheduling is an important step for improving the performance of object code produced by a compiler. A fundamental problem that arises in instruction scheduling is to ...