We have developed a new GA hardware called GAA-I (Genetic Algorithm Accelerator-I), in which the crossover operator to be applied to each individual was dynamically selected during...
Oversubscribed scheduling problems require removing or partially satisfying tasks when enough resources are not available. For a particular oversubscribed problem, Air Force Satel...
Laura Barbulescu, L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. How...
— Following a toxic contaminant release, either accidental or intentional, predicting the transport and dispersion of the contaminant becomes a critical problem for Homeland Defe...
Sue Ellen Haupt, George S. Young, Christopher T. A...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
The No-Free-Lunch theorems (NFLTs) are criticized for being too general to be of any relevance to the real world scenario. This paper investigates, both formally and empirically, ...