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WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Simulation-Based Optimization for Material Dispatching in a Retailer Network
This paper presents preliminary work done on simulationbased optimization of a stochastic material-dispatching system in a retailer network. The problem we consider is one of dete...
Ganesh Subramaniam, Abhijit Gosavi
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Simulated Annealing for Selection of Experimental Regions in Response Surface Methodology Applications
In this paper we describe a methodology that includes the complementary use of simulated annealing and response surface methodology (RSM). The methodology was developed for analys...
Jeffrey B. Schamburg, Donald E. Brown
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Meta-Heuristic Based on Simulated Annealing for Solving Multiple-Objective Problems in Simulation Optimization
This paper presents a new meta heuristic algorithm based on the search method called simulated annealing, and its application to solving multi objective simulation optimization pr...
Eduardo Alberto Avello, Felipe F. Baesler, Reinald...
IJCAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Reinforcement Learning in Distributed Domains: Beyond Team Games
Using a distributed algorithm rather than a centralized one can be extremely beneficial in large search problems. In addition, the incorporation of machine learning techniques lik...
David Wolpert, Joseph Sill, Kagan Tumer
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Techniques for Scheduling Earth Observing Satellites
Scheduling observations by coordinated fleets of Earth Observing Satellites (EOS) involves large search spaces, complex constraints and poorly understood bottlenecks; conditions w...
Al Globus, James Crawford, Jason D. Lohn, Anna Pry...
HIS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Circle Detection on Images with Annealed Differential Evolution
This article presents an algorithm for the automatic detection of circular shapes from complicated and noisy images. The algorithm is based on a hybrid technique composed of simul...
Swagatam Das, Sambarta Dasgupta, Arijit Biswas, Aj...
CBMS
2005
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Biclustering of Expression Data Using Simulated Annealing
In gene expression data a bicluster is a subset of genes and a subset of conditions which show correlating levels of expression. However, the problem of finding significant biclu...
Kenneth Bryan, Padraig Cunningham, Nadia Bolshakov...
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Population-Based Simulated Annealing for Traveling Tournaments
This paper reconsiders the travelling tournament problem, a complex sport-scheduling application which has attracted significant interest recently. It proposes a population-based...
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Yannis Vergados
AAAI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
From Comparing Clusterings to Combining Clusterings
This paper presents a fast simulated annealing framework for combining multiple clusterings (i.e. clustering ensemble) based on some measures of agreement between partitions, whic...
Zhiwu Lu, Yuxin Peng, Jianguo Xiao
GECCO
2006
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
On the local performance of simulated annealing and the (1+1) evolutionary algorithm
Simulated annealing and the (1+1) EA, a simple evolutionary algorithm, are both general randomized search heuristics that optimize any objective function with probability
Thomas Jansen, Ingo Wegener