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SEAL
1998
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
A Hybrid Tabu Search Algorithm for the Nurse Rostering Problem
Abstract. This paper deals with the problem of nurse rostering in Belgian hospitals. This is a highly constrained real world problem that was (until the results of this research we...
Edmund K. Burke, Patrick De Causmaecker, Greet Van...
GECCO
2006
Springer
132views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
15 years 7 months ago
"Optimal" mutation rates for genetic search
Using a set of model landscapes we examine how different mutation rates affect different search metrics. We show that very universal heuristics, such as 1/N and the error threshol...
Jorge Cervantes, Christopher R. Stephens
AIPS
2009
15 years 5 months ago
Ant Search Strategies For Planning Optimization
In this paper a planning framework based on Ant Colony Optimization techniques is presented. It is well known that finding optimal solutions to planning problems is a very hard co...
Marco Baioletti, Alfredo Milani, Valentina Poggion...
JCIT
2007
91views more  JCIT 2007»
15 years 4 months ago
A Tool to Personalize the Ranking of the Documents Returned by an Internet Search Engine
Internet search engines identify web pages that contain user-specified keywords, and then rank these pages according to their (heuristically assessed) relevance to the user’s qu...
Wadee S. Alhalabi, Miroslav Kubat, Moiez A. Tapia
GECCO
2007
Springer
150views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
Credit assignment in adaptive memetic algorithms
Adaptive Memetic Algorithms couple an evolutionary algorithm with a number of local search heuristics for improving the evolving solutions. They are part of a broad family of meta...
J. E. Smith