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AIPS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Exploiting the Power of Local Search in a Branch and Bound Algorithm for Job Shop Scheduling
This paper presents three techniques for using an iterated local search algorithm to improve the performance of a state-of-the-art branch and bound algorithm for job shop scheduli...
Matthew J. Streeter, Stephen F. Smith
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Improved Construction Heuristics and Iterated Local Search for the Routing and Wavelength Assignment Problem
This paper deals with the design of improved construction heuristics and iterated local search for the Routing and Wavelength Assignment problem (RWA). Given a physical network and...
Kerstin Bauer, Thomas Fischer, Sven Oliver Krumke,...
GECCO
2004
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Population-Based Iterated Local Search: Restricting Neighborhood Search by Crossover
Abstract. Iterated local search (ILS) is a powerful meta-heuristic algorithm applied to a large variety of combinatorial optimization problems. Contrary to evolutionary algorithms ...
Dirk Thierens
EVOW
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Generation of Tree Decompositions by Iterated Local Search
Many instances of NP-hard problems can be solved efficiently if the treewidth of their corresponding graph is small. Finding the optimal tree decompositions is an NP-hard problem a...
Nysret Musliu
EVOW
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Iterated k-Opt Local Search for the Maximum Clique Problem
Abstract. This paper presents a simple iterated local search metaheuristic incorporating a k-opt local search (KLS), called Iterated KLS (IKLS for short), for solving the maximum c...
Kengo Katayama, Masashi Sadamatsu, Hiroyuki Narihi...
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
A Critical Element-Guided Perturbation Strategy for Iterated Local Search
In this paper, we study the perturbation operator of Iterated Local Search. To guide more efficiently the search to move towards new promising regions of the search space, we intro...
Zhipeng Lü, Jin-Kao Hao