This paper looks upon the standard genetic algorithm as an artificial self-organizing process. With the purpose to provide concepts that make the algorithm more open for scalabili...
— In this paper, we propose a population-based implementation of simulated annealing to tackle multi-objective optimisation problems, in particular those of combinatorial nature....
Branch-and-bound and branch-and-cut use search trees to identify optimal solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we introduce an iterative search strategy...
In this talk we present a unified Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) algorithm for the Capacitated Arc Routing Problem (CARP) and some of its variants - the Capacitated Arc Routin...
Michael Polacek, Karl F. Doerner, Richard F. Hartl...
One common characterization of how simple hill-climbing optimization methods can fail is that they become trapped in local optima - a state where no small modi cation of the curren...