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2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Mind the Gaps: A New Splitting Strategy for Consistency Techniques
Classical methods for solving numerical CSPs are based on a branch and prune algorithm, a dichotomic enumeration process interleaved with a consistency filtering algorithm. In man...
Heikel Batnini, Claude Michel, Michel Rueher
CP
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Solving Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming Problems by Constraint Partitioning
Abstract. In this paper, we present a constraint-partitioning approach for finding local optimal solutions of large-scale mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems (MINLPs). Ba...
Benjamin W. Wah, Yixin Chen
ECAL
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Slime Mould and the Transition to Multicellularity: The Role of the Macrocyst Stage
The transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms is one of the mysteries of evolutionary biology. Individual cells must give up their rights to reproduction and reproduce...
John Bryden
ECAL
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Self-assembly on Demand in a Group of Physical Autonomous Mobile Robots Navigating Rough Terrain
Consider a group of autonomous, mobile robots with the ability to physically connect to one another (self-assemble). The group is said to exhibit functional self-assembly if the ro...
Rehan O'Grady, Roderich Groß, Francesco Mond...
GECCO
2005
Springer
106views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
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Fitness uniform deletion: a simple way to preserve diversity
A commonly experienced problem with population based optimisation methods is the gradual decline in population diversity that tends to occur over time. This can slow a system’s ...
Shane Legg, Marcus Hutter