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EDBT
2008
ACM
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16 years 3 months ago
Optimizing on-demand data broadcast scheduling in pervasive environments
Data dissemination in pervasive environments is often accomplished by on-demand broadcasting. The time critical nature of the data requests plays an important role in scheduling t...
Rinku Dewri, Indrakshi Ray, Indrajit Ray, Darrell ...
CEC
2010
IEEE
15 years 24 days ago
A hybrid multi-objective extremal optimisation approach for multi-objective combinatorial optimisation problems
Extremal optimisation (EO) is a relatively recent nature-inspired heuristic whose search method is especially suitable to solve combinatorial optimisation problems. To date, most o...
Pedro Gómez-Meneses, Marcus Randall, Andrew...
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EOR
2006
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15 years 3 months ago
Scheduling trainees at a hospital department using a branch-and-price approach
Scheduling trainees (graduate students) is a complicated problem that has to be solved frequently in many hospital departments. We will describe a trainee-scheduling problem encou...
Jeroen Beliën, Erik Demeulemeester
AIPS
2010
15 years 5 months ago
The Joy of Forgetting: Faster Anytime Search via Restarting
Anytime search algorithms solve optimisation problems by quickly finding a usually suboptimal solution and then finding improved solutions when given additional time. To deliver a...
Silvia Richter, Jordan Tyler Thayer, Wheeler Ruml
PATAT
2000
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
A Hyperheuristic Approach to Scheduling a Sales Summit
The concept of a hyperheuristic is introduced as an approach rates at a higher lever of abstraction than current metaheuristic approaches. The hyperheuristic manages the choice of ...
Peter I. Cowling, Graham Kendall, Eric Soubeiga