Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients," select a set of at most k facility locations to minimize the average distance f...
Anupam Gupta, Katrina Ligett, Frank McSherry, Aaro...
Many metaheuristics have difficulty exploring their search space comprehensively. Exploration time and efficiency are highly dependent on the size and the ruggedness of the search...
Genetic Algorithms (GAs) can efficiently produce high quality results for hard combinatorial real world problems such as the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). Genetic Vehicle Represe...
This paper analyzes the complexity of on-line reinforcement learning algorithms, namely asynchronous realtime versions of Q-learning and value-iteration, applied to the problem of...
This paper shows that the minimum ratio canceling algorithm of Wallacher (1989) (and a faster relaxed version) can be generalized to an algorithm for general linear programs with ...