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CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Designing memetic algorithms for real-world applications using self-imposed constraints
— Memetic algorithms (MAs) combine the global exploration abilities of evolutionary algorithms with a local search to further improve the solutions. While a neighborhood can be e...
Thomas Michelitsch, Tobias Wagner, Dirk Biermann, ...
CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
A Closed Form Solution to Natural Image Matting
Interactive digital matting, the process of extracting a foreground object from an image based on limited user input, is an important task in image and video editing. From a compu...
Anat Levin, Dani Lischinski, Yair Weiss
ASC
2004
14 years 9 months ago
Solving nonconvex climate control problems: pitfalls and algorithm performances
Global optimization can be used as the main component for reliable decision support systems. In this contribution, we explore numerical solution techniques for nonconvex and nondi...
Carmen G. Moles, Julio R. Banga, Klaus Keller
CEC
2010
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
A novel memetic algorithm for constrained optimization
In this paper, we present a memetic algorithm with novel local optimizer hybridization strategy for constrained optimization. The developed MA consists of multiple cycles. In each ...
Jianyong Sun, Jonathan M. Garibaldi
AI
2005
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Adopt: asynchronous distributed constraint optimization with quality guarantees
The Distributed Constraint Optimization Problem (DCOP) is able to model a wide variety of distributed reasoning tasks that arise in multiagent systems. Unfortunately, existing met...
Pragnesh Jay Modi, Wei-Min Shen, Milind Tambe, Mak...