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ANTSW
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
S-ACO: An Ant-Based Approach to Combinatorial Optimization Under Uncertainty
A general-purpose, simulation-based algorithm S-ACO for solving stochastic combinatorial optimization problems by means of the ant colony optimization (ACO) paradigm is investigate...
Walter J. Gutjahr
ANTSW
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Kernelization as Heuristic Structure for the Vertex Cover Problem
Abstract. For solving combinatorial optimisation problems, exact methods accurately exploit the structure of the problem but are tractable only up to a certain size; approximation ...
Stephen Gilmour, Mark Dras
NETWORKS
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Metaheuristics for the vehicle routing problem with loading constraints
We consider a combination of the capacitated vehicle routing problem and a class of additional loading constraints involving a parallel machine scheduling problem. The work is mot...
Karl F. Doerner, Guenther Fuellerer, Richard F. Ha...
CISIS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Hardware Software Partitioning Problem in Embedded System Design Using Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm
Hardware/software partitioning is a crucial problem in embedded system design. In this paper, we provide an alternative approach to solve this problem using Particle Swarm Optimiz...
Alakananda Bhattacharya, Amit Konar, Swagatam Das,...
ICUMT
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A COP for cooperation in a P2P streaming protocol
This paper introduces a Combinatory Optimization Problem (COP) which captures the performance in cooperation of a P2P Streaming Network, considered at the buffer level. A new famil...
María Elisa Bertinat, Darío Padula, ...