String comparison is a critical issue in many application domains, including speech recognition, contents search, and bioinformatics. The similarity between two strings of lengths...
This paper presents a theoretical definition for designing EDAs called Elitist Convergent Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (ECEDA), and a practical implementation: the Boltzm...
There are many innovative proposals introduced in the literature under the evolutionary computation field, from which estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) is one of them....
Alexander Mendiburu, Roberto Santana, Jose Antonio...
Fixed-parameter tractability (FPT) techniques have recently been successful in solving NP-complete problem instances of practical importance which were too large to be solved with...
James Cheetham, Frank K. H. A. Dehne, Andrew Rau-C...
Parallel programming has proven to be an effective technique to improve the performance of computationally intensive applications. However, writing parallel programs is not easy, ...
Roberto Di Cosmo, Zheng Li, Susanna Pelagatti, Pie...