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HM
2005
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
A Taxonomy of Cooperative Search Algorithms
A lot of heuristic approaches have been explored in the last two decades in order to tackle large size optimization problems. These areas include parallel meta-heuristics, hybrid m...
Mohammed El-Abd, Mohamed Kamel
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
An Indirect Genetic Algorithm for a Nurse Scheduling Problem
This paper describes a Genetic Algorithms approach to a manpower-scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. Although Genetic Algorithms have been successfully used for sim...
Uwe Aickelin, Kathryn A. Dowsland
GECCO
2006
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
A fast hybrid genetic algorithm for the quadratic assignment problem
Genetic algorithms (GAs) have recently become very popular by solving combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we propose an extension of the hybrid genetic algorithm f...
Alfonsas Misevicius
HAIS
2009
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
A GA(TS) Hybrid Algorithm for Scheduling in Computational Grids
The hybridization of heuristics methods aims at exploring the synergies among stand alone heuristics in order to achieve better results for the optimization problem under study. In...
Fatos Xhafa, Juan Antonio Gonzalez, Keshav P. Daha...
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Meta-heuristics for Circuit Partitioning in Parallel Test Generation
In this communication Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms, are applied to the graph partitioning problem. These techniques mimic processes in statistical mechanics and biol...
Consolación Gil, Julio Ortega, Antonio F. D...