Divide-and-Evolve (DaE) is an original “memeticization” of Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Intelligence Planning. However, like any Evolutionary Algorithm, DaE has se...
The Vehicle Routing Problem can be seen as a fusion of two well known combinatorial problems, the Travelling Salesman Problem and Bin Packing Problem. It has several variants, the...
Abstract. Computing lower bounds to the best-cost extension of a tuple is an ubiquous task in constraint optimization. A particular case of special interest is the computation of l...
We present a new index for approximate string matching. The index collects text q-samples, that is, disjoint text substrings of length q, at fixed intervals and stores their posi...
Gonzalo Navarro, Erkki Sutinen, Jani Tanninen, Jor...
Compared with traditional business operations, wwwbased commerce has many advantages, such as timeliness, worldwide communication, hyper-links, and multimedia. However, lack of cu...