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CEC
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
A hybrid evolutionary approach to the university course timetabling problem
Combinations of evolutionary based approaches with local search have provided very good results for a variety of scheduling problems. This paper describes the development of such a...
Salwani Abdullah, Edmund K. Burke, Barry McCollum
CP
2006
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Mini-bucket Elimination with Bucket Propagation
Many important combinatorial optimization problems can be expressed as constraint satisfaction problems with soft constraints. When problems are too difficult to be solved exactly,...
Emma Rollon, Javier Larrosa
MICCAI
2009
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Optimal Graph Search Segmentation Using Arc-weighted Graph for Simultaneous Surface Detection of Bladder and Prostate
We present a novel method for globally optimal surface segmentation of multiple mutually interacting objects, incorporating both edge and shape knowledge in a 3-D graph-theoretic a...
Qi Song, Xiaodong Wu, Yunlong Liu, Mark Smith, Joh...
DALT
2008
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Using Temporal Logic to Integrate Goals and Qualitative Preferences into Agent Programming
The core capability of a rational agent is to choose its next action in a rational fashion, a capability that can be put to good use by a designer to satisfy the design objectives ...
Koen V. Hindriks, M. Birna van Riemsdijk
ICML
2010
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Non-Local Contrastive Objectives
Pseudo-likelihood and contrastive divergence are two well-known examples of contrastive methods. These algorithms trade off the probability of the correct label with the probabili...
David Vickrey, Cliff Chiung-Yu Lin, Daphne Koller