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JAIR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A Constraint Programming Approach for Solving a Queueing Control Problem
In a facility with front room and back room operations, it is useful to switch workers between the rooms in order to cope with changing customer demand. Assuming stochastic custom...
Daria Terekhov, J. Christopher Beck
PRL
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Improving image segmentation quality through effective region merging using a hierarchical social metaheuristic
This paper proposes a new evolutionary region merging method in order to efficiently improve segmentation quality results. Our approach starts from an oversegmented image, which is...
Abraham Duarte, Miguel Ángel Sánchez...
IDA
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A comprehensive analysis of hyper-heuristics
Meta-heuristics such as simulated annealing, genetic algorithms and tabu search have been successfully applied to many difficult optimization problems for which no satisfactory pro...
Ender Özcan, Burak Bilgin, Emin Erkan Korkmaz
AAI
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Metaheuristics for Handling Time Interval Coverage Constraints in Nurse Scheduling
The problem of finding a high quality timetable for personnel in a hospital ward has been addressed by many researchers, personnel managers and schedulers over a number of years. ...
Edmund K. Burke, Patrick De Causmaecker, Sanja Pet...
IJCNN
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Job-Shop Scheduling with an Adaptive Neural Network and Local Search Hybrid Approach
— Job-shop scheduling is one of the most difficult production scheduling problems in industry. This paper proposes an adaptive neural network and local search hybrid approach fo...
Shengxiang Yang