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CIBCB
2009
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
rnaDesign: Local search for RNA secondary structure design
Abstract-- The RNA secondary structure design (SSD) problem is a recently emerging research topic motivated by applications such as customized drug design and the self-assembly of ...
Denny C. Dai, Herbert H. Tsang, Kay C. Wiese
ECAI
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Bayesian Monte Carlo for the Global Optimization of Expensive Functions
In the last decades enormous advances have been made possible for modelling complex (physical) systems by mathematical equations and computer algorithms. To deal with very long run...
Perry Groot, Adriana Birlutiu, Tom Heskes
ICANN
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Assessing Statistical Reliability of LiNGAM via Multiscale Bootstrap
Structural equation models have been widely used to study causal relationships between continuous variables. Recently, a non-Gaussian method called LiNGAM was proposed to discover ...
Yusuke Komatsu, Shohei Shimizu, Hidetoshi Shimodai...
GECCO
2008
Springer
131views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
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Rigorous analyses of fitness-proportional selection for optimizing linear functions
Rigorous runtime analyses of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) mainly investigate algorithms that use elitist selection methods. Two algorithms commonly studied are Randomized Local S...
Edda Happ, Daniel Johannsen, Christian Klein, Fran...
GECCO
2008
Springer
117views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
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Is "best-so-far" a good algorithmic performance metric?
In evolutionary computation, experimental results are commonly analyzed using an algorithmic performance metric called best-so-far. While best-so-far can be a useful metric, its u...
Nathaniel P. Troutman, Brent E. Eskridge, Dean F. ...