ISAMI
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Abstract Medical data sets consist of a huge amount of data organized in instances, where each one contains several attributes. The quality of the models obtained from a database s...
COR
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
In this paper we develop a variable neighborhood search (VNS) heuristic for solving mixed-integer programs (MIPs). It uses CPLEX, the general-purpose MIP solver, as a black-box. N...
HEURISTICS
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
In this article we investigate a new variant of Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS): Relaxation Guided Variable Neighborhood Search. It is based on the general VNS scheme and a new...
EOR
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
We suggest a new heuristic for solving unconstrained continuous optimization problems. It is based on a generalized version of the variable neighborhood search metaheuristic. Diff...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Background: Protein structure comparison is a key problem in bioinformatics. There exist several methods for doing protein comparison, being the solution of the Maximum Contact Ma...
SAGA
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. Motivated by an application in project portfolio analysis under uncertainty, we develop an algorithm S-VNS for solving stochastic combinatorial optimization (SCO) problem...
SAINT
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
We present a Variable Neighborhood Search approach for a network design problem occurring in real world when the bandwidth of an existing network shall be enhanced. Using two diff...
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— In this work we show that a metaheuristic, the Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS), can be effectively used in order to improve the performance of the hardware–friendly versio...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper proposes two modifications to the geometrically deformable template model. First, the optimization stage originally based on simulated annealing is replaced with a meta...