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WEA
2010
Springer
281views Algorithms» more  WEA 2010»
14 years 14 days ago
Distributed Time-Dependent Contraction Hierarchies
Server based route planning in road networks is now powerful enough to find quickest paths in a matter of milliseconds, even if detailed information on time-dependent travel times...
Tim Kieritz, Dennis Luxen, Peter Sanders, Christia...
CORR
2004
Springer
103views Education» more  CORR 2004»
13 years 7 months ago
The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robots
An optimization problem that naturally arises in the study of swarm robotics is the Freeze-Tag Problem (FTP) of how to awaken a set of "asleep" robots, by having an awak...
Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender, Sándor ...
GECCO
2008
Springer
182views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Scaling ant colony optimization with hierarchical reinforcement learning partitioning
This paper merges hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) with ant colony optimization (ACO) to produce a HRL ACO algorithm capable of generating solutions for large domains. Th...
Erik J. Dries, Gilbert L. Peterson
COMGEO
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Optimal location of transportation devices
We consider algorithms for finding the optimal location of a simple transportation device, that we call a moving walkway, consisting of a pair of points in the plane between which ...
Jean Cardinal, Sébastien Collette, Ferran H...
ESA
2004
Springer
145views Algorithms» more  ESA 2004»
14 years 22 days ago
Flows on Few Paths: Algorithms and Lower Bounds
Abstract. Classical network flow theory allows decomposition of flow into several chunks of arbitrary sizes traveling through the network on different paths. In the first part ...
Maren Martens, Martin Skutella