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ICTAI
1997
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Toward the Optimization of a Class of Black Box Optimization Algorithms
Many black box optimization algorithms have sufcient exibility to allow them to adapt to the varying circumstances they encounter. These capabilities are of two primary sorts: 1) ...
Gang Wang, Erik D. Goodman, William F. Punch III
ENVSOFT
2007
258views more  ENVSOFT 2007»
15 years 1 months ago
Optimal groundwater monitoring design using an ant colony optimization paradigm
Groundwater long-term monitoring (LTM) is required to assess the performance of groundwater remediation and human being health risk at post-closure sites where groundwater contami...
Yuanhai Li, Amy B. Chan Hilton
AMC
2005
138views more  AMC 2005»
15 years 1 months ago
Optimal centers in branch-and-prune algorithms for univariate global optimization
We present an interval branch-and-prune algorithm for computing verified enclosures for the global minimum and all global minimizers of univariate functions subject to bound const...
D. G. Sotiropoulos, T. N. Grapsa
GECCO
2005
Springer
203views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
15 years 6 months ago
Ant colony optimization for power plant maintenance scheduling optimization
In order to maintain a reliable and economic electric power supply, the maintenance of power plants is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, a formulation that enables a...
Wai-Kuan Foong, Holger R. Maier, Angus R. Simpson
SAT
2010
Springer
172views Hardware» more  SAT 2010»
14 years 11 months ago
On the Relative Merits of Simple Local Search Methods for the MAX-SAT Problem
Algorithms based on local search are popular for solving many optimization problems including the maximum satisfiability problem (MAXSAT). With regard to MAXSAT, the state of the ...
Denis Pankratov, Allan Borodin