In this work we present the Partner Units Problem as a novel challenge for optimization methods. It captures a certain type of configuration problem that frequently occurs in indu...
Markus Aschinger, Conrad Drescher, Gerhard Friedri...
Abstract. The coalition structure formation problem represents an active research area in multi-agent systems. A coalition structure is defined as a partition of the agents involve...
Nicola Di Mauro, Teresa Maria Altomare Basile, Ste...
This paper presents a Greedy-Least Saturation Degree (G-LSD) heuristic (which is an adaptation of the least saturation degree heuristic) to solve a real-world examination timetabli...
Masri Ayob, Ariff Md. Ab. Malik, Salwani Abdullah,...
In this paper we present an evaluation of selected parallel strategies for Simulated Annealing and Simulated Evolution, identifying the impact of various issues on the effectivene...
Sadiq M. Sait, Syed Sanaullah, Ali Mustafa Zaidi, ...
We consider the topographic clustering task and focus on the problem of its evaluation, which enables to perform model selection: topographic clustering algorithms, from the origin...