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GECCO
2004
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Subthreshold-Seeking Behavior and Robust Local Search
Subthreshold-seeking behavior occurs when the majority of the points that an algorithm samples have an evaluation less than some target threshold. We characterize sets of functions...
L. Darrell Whitley, Keith Bush, Jonathan E. Rowe
IPPS
2003
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Parallel Tabu Search in a Heterogeneous Environment
In this paper, we discuss a parallel tabu search algorithm with implementation in a heterogeneous environment. Two parallelization strategies are integrated: functional decomposit...
Ahmad A. Al-Yamani, Sadiq M. Sait, Hassan Barada, ...
GECCO
1999
Springer
126views Optimization» more  GECCO 1999»
15 years 9 months ago
Improving Genetic Algorithms by Search Space Reductions (with Applications to Flow Shop Scheduling)
Crossover operators that preserve common components can also preserve representation level constraints. Consequently, these constraints can be used to beneficially reduce the sea...
Stephen Y. Chen, Stephen F. Smith
ICRA
2007
IEEE
130views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
15 years 11 months ago
The Cost of Reality: Effects of Real-World Factors on Multi-Robot Search
— Designing algorithms for multi-robot systems can be a complex and difficult process: the cost of such systems can be very high, collecting experimental data can be timeconsumi...
Jim Pugh, Alcherio Martinoli
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Anonymizing user profiles for personalized web search
We study the problem of anonymizing user profiles so that user privacy is sufficiently protected while the anonymized profiles are still effective in enabling personalized web sea...
Yun Zhu, Li Xiong, Christopher Verdery