Abstract. Kakuro consists in filling a grid with integers that sum up to predefined values. Sums are predefined for each row and column and all integers have to be different in ...
Abstract. Collection selection is traditionally a sub-problem of metasearch, and identifies collections most likely to contain relevant documents. However, we propose to treat coll...
Abstract— Over the last years, interest in hybrid metaheuristics has risen considerably in the field of optimization. Combinations of methods such as evolutionary algorithms and...
Abstract. Size fair and homologous crossover genetic operators for tree based genetic programming are described and tested. Both produce considerably reduced increases in program s...
A pattern database is a lookup table that stores an exact evaluation function for a relaxed search problem, which provides an admissible heuristic for the original search problem....