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TEC
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
A short convergence proof for a class of ant colony optimization algorithms
In this paper, we prove some convergence properties for a class of ant colony optimization algorithms. In particular, we prove that for any small constant 0 and for a sufficiently ...
Thomas Stützle, Marco Dorigo
JACM
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Finding a maximum likelihood tree is hard
Abstract. Maximum likelihood (ML) is an increasingly popular optimality criterion for selecting evolutionary trees [Felsenstein 1981]. Finding optimal ML trees appears to be a very...
Benny Chor, Tamir Tuller
AEI
2004
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13 years 7 months ago
Ant colony optimization techniques for the vehicle routing problem
This research applies the meta-heuristic method of ant colony optimization (ACO) to an established set of vehicle routing problems (VRP). The procedure simulates the decision-maki...
John E. Bell, Patrick R. McMullen
AIPS
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Optimal Rectangle Packing: New Results
We present new results on the problem of finding an enclosing rectangle of minimum area that will contain a given a set of rectangles. Many simple scheduling tasks can be modelled...
Richard E. Korf
ICDM
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Improving Personalization Solutions through Optimal Segmentation of Customer Bases
On the Web, where the search costs are low and the competition is just a mouse click away, it is crucial to segment the customers intelligently in order to offer more targeted and...
Tianyi Jiang, Alexander Tuzhilin