This paper considers how we may provide support for the development of general design principles in domestic environments. In particular we examine the potential for using design p...
John A. Hughes, Jon O'Brien, Tom Rodden, Mark Roun...
This paper presents operators searching large neighborhoods in order to solve the vehicle routing problem. They make use of the pruning and propagation techniques of constraint pr...
Louis-Martin Rousseau, Michel Gendreau, Gilles Pes...
This paper introduces a niching technique called GAS (S stands for species) which dynamically creates a subpopulation structure (taxonomic chart) using a radius function instead of...
Remote service invocation via HTTP and XML promises to become an important component of the Internet infrastructure. Work is ongoing in the W3C XML Protocol Working Group to define...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
We present a probabilistic analysis of integer linear programs (ILPs). More specifically, we study ILPs in a so-called smoothed analysis in which it is assumed that first an adve...