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2008
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Fuzzy Constraint-based Schema Matching Formulation
The deep Web has many challenges to be solved. Among them is schema matching. In this paper, we build a conceptual connection between the schema matching problem SMP and the fuzzy ...
Alsayed Algergawy, Eike Schallehn, Gunter Saake
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EVOW
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Local Search for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization: A Methodology and an Application
Abstract. A methodology is presented for tackling mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problems by local search, in particular large-scale real-life problems. This methodology is i...
Frédéric Gardi, Karim Nouioua
FOCS
2005
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Truthful and Near-Optimal Mechanism Design via Linear Programming
We give a general technique to obtain approximation mechanisms that are truthful in expectation. We show that for packing domains, any α-approximation algorithm that also bounds ...
Ron Lavi, Chaitanya Swamy
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GECCO
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
An evolutionary approach to planning IEEE 802.16 networks
Efficient and effective deployment of IEEE 802.16 networks to service an area of users with certain traffic demands is an important network planning problem. We resort to an evol...
Ting Hu, Yuanzhu Peter Chen, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Rob...
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GECCO
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Reinforcement Learning Estimation of Distribution Algorithm
Abstract. This paper proposes an algorithm for combinatorial optimizations that uses reinforcement learning and estimation of joint probability distribution of promising solutions ...
Topon Kumar Paul, Hitoshi Iba