Abstract. The almost square rectangle packing problem involves packing all rectangles with sizes 1 × 2 to n × (n + 1) (almost squares) into an enclosing rectangle of minimal area...
Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms have recently been proven to be among the best approaches to solving computationally hard problems. SLS algorithms typically have a number...
In this paper we give a specification of a new block cipher that can be called the Courtois Toy Cipher (CTC). It is quite simple, and yet very much like any other known block ciph...
We consideralgorithms for a simple one-dimensionalpoint placement problem: given N points on a line, and noisy measurements of the distances between many pairs of them, estimate th...
Coevolution can be used to adaptively choose the tests used for evaluating candidate solutions. A long-standing question is how this dynamic setup may be organized to yield reliab...