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ISQED
2005
IEEE
81views Hardware» more  ISQED 2005»
15 years 10 months ago
Exact Algorithms for Coupling Capacitance Minimization by Adding One Metal Layer
Due to the rapid development of manufacturing process technology and tight marketing schedule, the chip design and manufacturing always work toward an integrated solution to achie...
Hua Xiang, Kai-Yuan Chao, Martin D. F. Wong
ECAL
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
The Quantitative Law of Effect is a Robust Emergent Property of an Evolutionary Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning
An evolutionary reinforcement-learning algorithm, the operation of which was not associated with an optimality condition, was instantiated in an artificial organism. The algorithm ...
J. J. McDowell, Zahra Ansari
EOR
2007
93views more  EOR 2007»
15 years 4 months ago
Exact algorithms for procurement problems under a total quantity discount structure
In this paper, we study the procurement problem faced by a buyer who needs to purchase a variety of goods from suppliers applying a so-called total quantity discount policy. This ...
Dries R. Goossens, A. J. T. Maas, Frits C. R. Spie...
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GECCO
2007
Springer
437views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 11 months ago
A gestalt genetic algorithm: less details for better search
The basic idea to defend in this paper is that an adequate perception of the search space, sacrificing most of the precision, can paradoxically accelerate the discovery of the mo...
Christophe Philemotte, Hugues Bersini
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FOCS
1993
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
An On-Line Algorithm for Improving Performance in Navigation
We consider the following scenario. A point robot is placed at some start location ¡ in a 2dimensional scene containing oriented rectangular obstacles. The robot must repeatedly ...
Avrim Blum, Prasad Chalasani