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SEAL
1998
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Hybrid Tabu Search Algorithm for the Nurse Rostering Problem
Abstract. This paper deals with the problem of nurse rostering in Belgian hospitals. This is a highly constrained real world problem that was (until the results of this research we...
Edmund K. Burke, Patrick De Causmaecker, Greet Van...
CP
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Constraint Symmetry for the Soft CSP
We introduce a definition of constraint symmetry for soft CSPs, based on the definition of constraint symmetry for classical CSPs. We show that the constraint symmetry group of a...
Barbara M. Smith, Stefano Bistarelli, Barry O'Sull...
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Solving Necklace Constraint Problems
Abstract. Some constraint problems have a combinatorial structure where the constraints allow the sequence of variables to be rotated (necklaces), if not also the domain values to ...
Pierre Flener, Justin Pearson
CP
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Incremental Algorithms for Local Search from Existential Second-Order Logic
Local search is a powerful and well-established method for solving hard combinatorial problems. Yet, until recently, it has provided very little user support, leading to time-consu...
Magnus Ågren, Pierre Flener, Justin Pearson
IJCAI
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Robot Weightlifting By Direct Policy Search
This paper describes a method for structuring a robot motor learning task. By designing a suitably parameterized policy, we show that a simple search algorithm, along with biologi...
Michael T. Rosenstein, Andrew G. Barto