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GECCO
2009
Springer
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15 years 9 months ago
Using a distance metric to guide PSO algorithms for many-objective optimization
In this paper we propose to use a distance metric based on user-preferences to efficiently find solutions for manyobjective problems. We use a particle swarm optimization (PSO) a...
Upali K. Wickramasinghe, Xiaodong Li
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PPSN
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Optimizing Delivery Time in Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows involves finding the lowest-cost set of routes to deliver goods to customers, which have service time windows, using a homogeneous ...
Abel Garcia-Najera, John A. Bullinaria
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GECCO
2009
Springer
103views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
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Why one must use reweighting in estimation of distribution algorithms
We study the update of the distribution in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms, and show that a simple modification leads to unbiased estimates of the optimum. The simple modi...
Fabien Teytaud, Olivier Teytaud
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AIIA
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann
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PPSN
1998
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Inver-over Operator for the TSP
Abstract. In this paper we investigate the usefulness of a new operator, inver-over, for an evolutionary algorithm for the TSP. Inver-over is based on simple inversion, however, kn...
Guo Tao, Zbigniew Michalewicz