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PRICAI
2004
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Solving Over-Constrained Temporal Reasoning Problems Using Local Search
Temporal reasoning is an important task in many areas of computer science including planning, scheduling, temporal databases and instruction optimisation for compilers. Given a kno...
Matthew Beaumont, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar, Mic...
TSE
2010
136views more  TSE 2010»
14 years 9 months ago
A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Search-Based Testing: Local, Global, and Hybrid Search
Search based optimization techniques have been applied to structural software test data generation since 1992, with a recent upsurge in interest and activity within this area. How...
Mark Harman, Phil McMinn
CSC
2008
15 years 28 days ago
Multilevel Approaches applied to the Capacitated Clustering Problem
- This paper presents two multilevel refinement algorithms for the capacitated clustering problem. Multilevel refinement is a collaborative technique capable of significantly aidin...
Demane Rodney, Alan Soper, Chris Walshaw
SP
2000
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Searching for a Solution: Engineering Tradeoffs and the Evolution of Provably Secure Protocols
Tradeoffs are an important part of engineering security. Protocol security is important. So are efficiency and cost. This paper provides an early framework for handling such aspec...
John A. Clark, Jeremy L. Jacob
GECCO
2007
Springer
140views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 5 months ago
On the moments of the sampling distribution of particle swarm optimisers
A method is presented that allows one to exactly determine all the characteristics of a PSO’s sampling distribution and explain how it changes over time, in the presence stochas...
Riccardo Poli