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2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Approximate extended formulations
Mixed integer programming (MIP) formulations are typically tightened through the use of a separation algorithm and the addition of violated cuts. Using extended formulations involv...
Mathieu Van Vyve, Laurence A. Wolsey
SASO
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On Scaling Multi-Agent Task Reallocation Using Market-Based Approach
Multi-agent systems (MAS) provide a promising technology for addressing problems such as search and rescue missions, mine sweeping, and surveillance. These problems are a form of ...
Rajesh K. Karmani, Timo Latvala, Gul Agha
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Geometric Nelder-Mead Algorithm for the permutation representation
The Nelder-Mead Algorithm (NMA) is an almost half-century old method for numerical optimization, and it is a close relative of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Differential Ev...
Alberto Moraglio, Julian Togelius
AAAI
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Depth-First Branch-and-Bound versus Local Search: A Case Study
Depth-first branch-and-bound (DFBnB) is a complete algorithm that is typically used to find optimal solutions of difficult combinatorial optimization problems. It can also be adap...
Weixiong Zhang
COMBINATORICA
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Approximation algorithms via contraction decomposition
We prove that the edges of every graph of bounded (Euler) genus can be partitioned into any prescribed number k of pieces such that contracting any piece results in a graph of bou...
Erik D. Demaine, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Bojan M...