The focus is on black-box optimization of a function f : RN R given as a black box, i. e. an oracle for f-evaluations. This is commonly called direct search, and in fact, most meth...
Abstract There are increasing demands on portable communication devices to run multimedia applications. ISO (an International Organization for Standardization) standard MPEG-4 is a...
One of the major difficulties when applying Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEA) to real world problems is the large number of objective function evaluations. Approximate...
A. K. M. Khaled Ahsan Talukder, Michael Kirley, Ra...
Gene clustering, the process of grouping related genes in the same cluster, is at the foundation of different genomic studies that aim at analyzing the function of genes. Microarr...
Xiang Xiao, Ernst R. Dow, Russell C. Eberhart, Zin...
Unit propagation-based (UP) lower bounds are used in the vast majority of current Max-SAT solvers. However, lower bounds based on UP have seldom been applied in PseudoBoolean Opti...