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2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Exact/Heuristic Hybrids Using rVNS and Hyperheuristics for Workforce Scheduling
In this paper we study a complex real-world workforce scheduling problem. We propose a method of splitting the problem into smaller parts and solving each part using exhaustive sea...
Stephen Remde, Peter I. Cowling, Keshav P. Dahal, ...
TEC
2010
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14 years 10 months ago
Benefits of a Population: Five Mechanisms That Advantage Population-Based Algorithms
This paper identifies five distinct mechanisms by which a population-based algorithm might have an advantage over a solo-search algorithm in classical optimization. These mechanism...
Adam Prügel-Bennett
GECCO
2005
Springer
110views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
15 years 8 months ago
A genetic algorithm encoding for a class of cardinality constraints
A genetic algorithm encoding is proposed which is able to automatically satisfy a class of important cardinality constraints where the set of distinct values of the design variabl...
Helio J. C. Barbosa, Afonso C. C. Lemonge
CSCLP
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
An Attempt to Dynamically Break Symmetries in the Social Golfers Problem
A number of different satisfaction and optimisation combinatorial problems have recently been approached with constraint programming over the domain of finite sets, for increased d...
Francisco Azevedo
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WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Live web search experiments for the rest of us
There are significant barriers to academic research into user Web search preferences. Academic researchers are unable to manipulate the results shown by a major search engine to ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Ramesh S. Sankaranar...