The No-Free-Lunch theorems (NFLTs) are criticized for being too general to be of any relevance to the real world scenario. This paper investigates, both formally and empirically, ...
Estimating the optimal number of clusters for a dataset is one of the most essential issues in cluster analysis. An improper pre-selection for the number of clusters might easily ...
Abstract. Given an evolutionary algorithm for a problem and an instance of the problem, the results of several trials of the EA on the instance constitute a sample from the distrib...
Mark A. Renslow, Brenda Hinkemeyer, Bryant A. Juls...
Hardware/software partitioning is a crucial problem in embedded system design. In this paper, we provide an alternative approach to solve this problem using Particle Swarm Optimiz...
Alakananda Bhattacharya, Amit Konar, Swagatam Das,...
While operating a crane for maximum productivity, the time of operation and the required energy are two important conflicting factors faced by a crane operator. In such a case, tr...