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TEC
2002
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14 years 9 months ago
Ant colony optimization for resource-constrained project scheduling
An ant colony optimization (ACO) approach for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) is presented. Several new features that are interesting for ACO in general...
Daniel Merkle, Martin Middendorf, Hartmut Schmeck
SARA
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Solving the 24 Puzzle with Instance Dependent Pattern Databases
A pattern database (PDB) is a heuristic function in a form of a lookup table which stores the cost of optimal solutions for instances of subproblems. bproblems are generated by abs...
Ariel Felner, Amir Adler
SGAI
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Escaping Local Optima: Constraint Weights vs. Value Penalties
Constraint Satisfaction Problems can be solved using either iterative improvement or constructive search approaches. Iterative improvement techniques converge quicker than the cons...
Muhammed Basharu, Inés Arana, Hatem Ahriz
GECCO
2006
Springer
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15 years 1 months ago
Optimising cancer chemotherapy using an estimation of distribution algorithm and genetic algorithms
This paper presents a methodology for using heuristic search methods to optimise cancer chemotherapy. Specifically, two evolutionary algorithms - Population Based Incremental Lear...
Andrei Petrovski, Siddhartha Shakya, John A. W. Mc...
NIPS
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Convex Methods for Transduction
The 2-class transduction problem, as formulated by Vapnik [1], involves finding a separating hyperplane for a labelled data set that is also maximally distant from a given set of...
Tijl De Bie, Nello Cristianini