Neighborhood search heuristics like local search and its variants are some of the most popular approaches to solve discrete optimization problems of moderate to large size. Apart ...
As experimental digital library testbeds gain wider acceptance and develop significant user bases, it becomes important to investigate the ways in which users interact with the sys...
Abstract. The rapid growth of on-line information including multimedia contents during the last decade caused a major problem for Web users - there is too much information availabl...
This paper proposes a new evolutionary method for generating ANNs. In this method, a simple real-number string is used to codify both architecture and weights of the networks. Ther...
Abstract. We derive a continuous probability distribution which generates neighbours of a point in an interval in a similar way to the bitwise mutation of a Gray code binary string...