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EOR
2008
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Investigating a hybrid simulated annealing and local search algorithm for constrained optimization
Constrained Optimization Problems (COP) often take place in many practical applications such as kinematics, chemical process optimization, power systems and so on. These problems ...
Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu, Linet Özdamar
EOR
2007
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Considering manufacturing cost and scheduling performance on a CNC turning machine
A well known industry application that allows controllable processing times is the manufacturing operations on CNC machines. For each turning operation as an example, there is a n...
Sinan Gurel, M. Selim Akturk
GECCO
2008
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Understanding elementary landscapes
The landscape formalism unites a finite candidate solution set to a neighborhood topology and an objective function. This construct can be used to model the behavior of local sea...
Darrell Whitley, Andrew M. Sutton, Adele E. Howe
GECCO
2005
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
An effective use of crowding distance in multiobjective particle swarm optimization
In this paper, we present an approach that extends the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm to handle multiobjective optimization problems by incorporating the mechanism of...
Carlo R. Raquel, Prospero C. Naval Jr.
AAAI
1997
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Model Minimization in Markov Decision Processes
Many stochastic planning problems can be represented using Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). A difficulty with using these MDP representations is that the common algorithms for so...
Thomas Dean, Robert Givan