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IICAI
2003
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A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Minimum Vertex Cover Problem
Minimum vertex cover problem (MVCP) is an NP-hard problem and it has numerous real life applications. This paper presents hybrid genetic algorithm (HGA) to solve MVCP efficiently. ...
Ketan Kotecha, Nilesh Gambhava
SODA
2001
ACM
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New approaches to covering and packing problems
Covering and packing integer programs model a large family of combinatorial optimization problems. The current-best approximation algorithms for these are an instance of the basic...
Aravind Srinivasan
AE
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Memetic Algorithms for Constructing Binary Covering Arrays of Strength Three
Abstract. This paper presents a new Memetic Algorithm (MA) designed to compute near-optimal solutions for the covering array construction problem. It incorporates several distingui...
Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello, Jose Torres-Jimenez
CORR
2008
Springer
151views Education» more  CORR 2008»
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Geometric Set Cover and Hitting Sets for Polytopes in $R^3$
Suppose we are given a finite set of points P in R3 and a collection of polytopes T that are all translates of the same polytope T. We consider two problems in this paper. The firs...
Sören Laue
CONSTRAINTS
2006
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Constraint Models for the Covering Test Problem
Covering arrays can be applied to the testing of software, hardware and advanced materials, and to the effects of hormone interaction on gene expression. In this paper we develop c...
Brahim Hnich, Steven David Prestwich, Evgeny Selen...