The Negative Slope Coefficient (nsc) is an empirical measure of problem hardness based on the analysis of offspring-fitness vs. parent-fitness scatterplots. The nsc has been teste...
We introduce and study the donation center location problem, which has an additional application in network testing and may also be of independent interest as a general graph-theor...
The main aim of randomized search heuristics is to produce good approximations of optimal solutions within a small amount of time. In contrast to numerous experimental results, th...
Tobias Friedrich, Nils Hebbinghaus, Frank Neumann,...
We consider the monadic boundedness problem for least fixed points over FO formulae as a decision problem: Given a formula ϕ(X, x), positive in X, decide whether there is a unif...
This paper gives a theoretical and empirical analysis of the time complexity of genetic algorithms (GAs) on problems with exponentially scaled building blocks. It is important to ...
Fernando G. Lobo, David E. Goldberg, Martin Pelika...