There has recently been a great deal of interest in search? based test data generation, with many local and global search algorithms being proposed. However, to date, there has be...
Mark Harman, Youssef Hassoun, Kiran Lakhotia, Phil...
This paper is about Reinforcement Learning (RL) applied to online parameter tuning in Stochastic Local Search (SLS) methods. In particular a novel application of RL is considered i...
The problem of searching for a walker that wants to be found, when the walker moves toward the helicopter when it can hear it, is an example of a two sided search problem which is ...
In the age of electronic commerce, with low-cost information access, it has been recognized that a bundle search in a combinatorial trade is very valuable for buyers. Optimal trav...
A significant challenge in genetic programming is premature convergence to local optima, which often prevents evolution from solving problems. This paper introduces to genetic pro...