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GECCO
2005
Springer
128views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Hybrid multiobjective genetic algorithm with a new adaptive local search process
This paper is concerned with a specific brand of evolutionary algorithms: Memetic algorithms. A new local search technique with an adaptive neighborhood setting process is introdu...
Salem F. Adra, Ian Griffin, Peter J. Fleming
UAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Decentralised coordination of continuously valued control parameters using the max-sum algorithm
In this paper we address the problem of decentralised coordination for agents that must make coordinated decisions over continuously valued control parameters (as is required in m...
Ruben Stranders, Alessandro Farinelli, Alex Rogers...
DC
2010
13 years 9 months ago
A knowledge-based analysis of global function computation
Consider a distributed system N in which each agent has an input value and each communication link has a weight. Given a global function, that is, a function f whose value depends...
Joseph Y. Halpern, Sabina Petride
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Trada: tree based ranking function adaptation
Machine Learned Ranking approaches have shown successes in web search engines. With the increasing demands on developing effective ranking functions for different search domains, ...
Keke Chen, Rongqing Lu, C. K. Wong, Gordon Sun, La...