: This paper presents a meta-heuristic optimization algorithm, Tabu Search (TS), and describes how it can be used to solve a wide variety of chemical engineering problems. Modifica...
Although the ant metaphor has been successfully applied to routing of data packets both in wireless and fixed networks, little is known yet about its appropriateness for search i...
The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that is at the core of many real-world optimization problems. We prove that QAP c...
The generation of profitable trading rules for Foreign Exchange (FX) investments is a difficult but popular problem. The use of Machine Learning in this problem allows us to obtai...
Akinori Hirabayashi, Claus de Castro Aranha, Hitos...
Abstract. The coalition structure formation problem represents an active research area in multi-agent systems. A coalition structure is defined as a partition of the agents involve...
Nicola Di Mauro, Teresa Maria Altomare Basile, Ste...