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CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
Partnering Strategies for Fitness Evaluation in a Pyramidal Evolutionary Algorithm
This paper combines the idea of a hierarchical distributed genetic algorithm with different interagent partnering strategies. Cascading clusters of sub-populations are built from ...
Uwe Aickelin, Larry Bull
IOR
2006
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15 years 7 months ago
A Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for the Dial-a-Ride Problem
In the dial-a-ride problem, users formulate requests for transportation from a specific origin to a specific destination. Transportation is carried out by vehicles providing a sha...
Jean-François Cordeau
RSA
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
An approximation algorithm for counting contingency tables
Abstract. We present a randomized approximation algorithm for counting contingency tables, m × n non-negative integer matrices with given row sums R = (r1, . . . , rm) and column ...
Alexander I. Barvinok, Zur Luria, Alex Samorodnits...
JMLR
2012
13 years 9 months ago
Message-Passing Algorithms for MAP Estimation Using DC Programming
We address the problem of finding the most likely assignment or MAP estimation in a Markov random field. We analyze the linear programming formulation of MAP through the lens of...
Akshat Kumar, Shlomo Zilberstein, Marc Toussaint
STOC
1998
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Checking Polynomial Identities over any Field: Towards a Derandomization?
We present a Monte Carlo algorithm for testing multivariate polynomial identities over any field using fewer random bits than other methods. To test if a polynomial P(x1 ::: xn) ...
Daniel Lewin, Salil P. Vadhan