Metaheuristics represent an important class of techniques to solve, approximately, hard combinatorial optimization problems for which the use of exact methods is impractical. In t...
Alexandre Plastino, Erick R. Fonseca, Richard Fuch...
Routing in computer networks is a nonlinear combinatorial optimization problem with numerous constraints and is classified as an NP-complete problem. There are certain important Qo...
A vital task facing government agencies and commercial organizations that report data is to represent the data in a meaningful way and simultaneously to protect the confidentialit...
Fred Glover, Lawrence H. Cox, Rahul Patil, James P...
Previous research has shown that artificial immune systems can be used to produce robust schedules in a manufacturing environment. The main goal is to develop building blocks (anti...
Salwani Abdullah, Uwe Aickelin, Edmund K. Burke, A...
The requirements imposed on information retrieval systems are increasing steadily. The vast number of documents in today's large databases and especially on World Wide Web ca...