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ANOR
2004
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13 years 8 months ago
Approximations and Randomization to Boost CSP Techniques
Abstract. In recent years we have seen an increasing interest in combining constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) formulations and linear programming (LP) based techniques for solvi...
Carla P. Gomes, David B. Shmoys
ICEC
1994
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13 years 10 months ago
Improving Search by Incorporating Evolution Principles in Parallel Tabu Search
Combinatorial optimization problems require computing efforts which grow at least exponentially with the problem dimension. Therefore, the use of the remarkable power of massively...
Ivan De Falco, Renato Del Balio, Ernesto Tarantino...
CP
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Boosting Distributed Constraint Satisfaction
Abstract Competition and cooperation can boost the performance of a combinatorial search process. Both can be implemented with a portfolio of algorithms which run in parallel, give...
Georg Ringwelski, Youssef Hamadi
GECCO
2007
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
A genetic algorithm for privacy preserving combinatorial optimization
We propose a protocol for a local search and a genetic algorithm for the distributed traveling salesman problem (TSP). In the distributed TSP, information regarding the cost funct...
Jun Sakuma, Shigenobu Kobayashi
AI
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Iterated Robust Tabu Search for MAX-SAT
MAX-SAT, the optimisation variant of the satisfiability problem in propositional logic, is an important and widely studied combinatorial optimisation problem with applications in ...
Kevin Smyth, Holger H. Hoos, Thomas Stützle