The random number generator is one of the important components of evolutionary algorithms (EAs). Therefore, when we try to solve function optimization problems using EAs, we must ...
Abstract. This work compares different metaheuristics techniques applied to an important problem in natural language: tagging. Tagging amounts to assigning to each word in a text ...
In recent literature, the niche enabling effects of crowding and the sharing algorithms have been systematically investigated in the context of Genetic Algorithms and are now estab...
Abstract. Iterated local search (ILS) is a powerful meta-heuristic algorithm applied to a large variety of combinatorial optimization problems. Contrary to evolutionary algorithms ...
In: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-03), pp. 93–109, Springer-Verlag LNCS Series. c 2003 by Springer-Verlag. We a...