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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...