The focus is on black-box optimization of a function f : RN R given as a black box, i. e. an oracle for f-evaluations. This is commonly called direct search, and in fact, most meth...
In a facility with front room and back room operations, it is useful to switch workers between the rooms in order to cope with changing customer demand. Assuming stochastic custom...
Supervised classification methods have been shown to be very effective for a large number of applications. They require a training data set whose instances are labeled to indicate...
Heuristic Algorithms (HA) are very widely used to tackle practical problems in operations research. They are simple, easy to understand and inspire confidence. Many of these HAs a...
We present a compiler optimization approach that uses the simulated evolution (SE) paradigm to enhance the finish time of heuristically scheduled computations with communication t...