Local search (LS) algorithms are among the most powerful techniques for solving computationally hard problems in combinatorial optimization. These algorithms could be viewed as &q...
In genetic programming a general consensus is that the population should be as large as practically possible or sensible. In this paper we examine a batch of problems of combinato...
—The noise-robust matching of two graphs is a hard combinatorial problem with practical importance in several domains. In practical applications, a unique solution for a given in...
We introduce Hegel and Fichte’s dialectic as a search meta-heuristic for constraint satisfaction and optimization. Dialectic is an appealing mental concept for local search as it...
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