Sciweavers

34170 search results - page 109 / 6834
» Optimization
Sort
View
GECCO
2000
Springer
108views Optimization» more  GECCO 2000»
15 years 6 months ago
Hierarchical Problem Solving and the Bayesian Optimization Algorithm
The paper discusses three major issues. First, it discusses why it makes sense to approach problems in a hierarchical fashion. It de nes the class of hierarchically decomposable f...
Martin Pelikan, David E. Goldberg
DAC
1995
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A Survey of Optimization Techniques Targeting Low Power VLSI Circuits
—We survey state-of-the-art optimization methods that target low power dissipation in VLSI circuits. Optimizations at the circuit, logic, architectural and system levels are cons...
Srinivas Devadas, Sharad Malik
WSC
2008
15 years 5 months ago
The mathematics of continuous-variable simulation optimization
Continuous-variable simulation optimization problems are those optimization problems where the objective function is computed through stochastic simulation and the decision variab...
Sujin Kim, Shane G. Henderson
WSC
2008
15 years 5 months ago
A particle filtering framework for randomized optimization algorithms
We propose a framework for optimization problems based on particle filtering (also called Sequential Monte Carlo method). This framework unifies and provides new insight into rand...
Enlu Zhou, Michael C. Fu, Steven I. Marcus
AUSAI
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Understanding the Pheromone System Within Ant Colony Optimization
Abstract. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a collection of metaheuristics inspired by foraging in ant colonies, whose aim is to solve combinatorial optimization problems. We identi...
Stephen Gilmour, Mark Dras