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ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Decentralised dynamic task allocation: a practical game: theoretic approach
This paper reports on a novel decentralised technique for planning agent schedules in dynamic task allocation problems. Specifically, we use a Markov game formulation of these pr...
Archie C. Chapman, Rosa Anna Micillo, Ramachandra ...
HPCN
1995
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Discrete optimisation and real-world problems
In the global economy, proper organisation and planning of production and storage locations, transportation and scheduling are vital to retain the competitive edge of companies. Th...
Josef Kallrath, Anna Schreieck
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
A Comparative Study of Five Parallel Genetic Algorithms Using the Traveling Salesman Problem
Parallel genetic algorithms (PGAs) have been developed to reduce the large execution times that are associated with serial genetic algorithms (SGAs). They have also been used to s...
Lee Wang, Anthony A. Maciejewski, Howard Jay Siege...
VECPAR
2004
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Domain Decomposition Methods for PDE Constrained Optimization Problems
Abstract. Optimization problems constrained by nonlinear partial differential equations have been the focus of intense research in scientific computing lately. Current methods for...
Ernesto E. Prudencio, Richard H. Byrd, Xiao-Chuan ...
AAAI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
An Asymptotically Optimal Algorithm for the Max k-Armed Bandit Problem
We present an asymptotically optimal algorithm for the max variant of the k-armed bandit problem. Given a set of k slot machines, each yielding payoff from a fixed (but unknown) d...
Matthew J. Streeter, Stephen F. Smith