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AAAI
2010
15 years 6 months ago
Coalition Structure Generation based on Distributed Constraint Optimization
Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in AI and multi-agent systems (MAS). Coalition Structure Generation (CSG) involves partitioning a set of agents into coa...
Suguru Ueda, Atsushi Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Marius...
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GECCO
2004
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
An Estimation of Distribution Algorithm Based on Maximum Entropy
Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDA) are similar to genetic algorithms except that they replace crossover and mutation with sampling from an estimated probability distributi...
Alden H. Wright, Riccardo Poli, Christopher R. Ste...
IOR
2007
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15 years 4 months ago
A Decentralized Approach to Discrete Optimization via Simulation: Application to Network Flow
We study a new class of decentralized algorithms for discrete optimization via simulation, which is inspired by the fictitious play algorithm applied to games with identical inte...
Alfredo Garcia, Stephen D. Patek, Kaushik Sinha
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GECCO
2003
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Pruning Neural Networks with Distribution Estimation Algorithms
Abstract. This paper describes the application of four evolutionary algorithms to the pruning of neural networks used in classification problems. Besides of a simple genetic algor...
Erick Cantú-Paz
FUIN
2010
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15 years 2 months ago
Cluster Tree Elimination for Distributed Constraint Optimization with Quality Guarantees
Some distributed constraint optimization algorithms use a linear number of messages in the number of agents, but of exponential size. This is often the main limitation for their pr...
Ismel Brito, Pedro Meseguer