One of the most important, common and critical management issues lies in determining the "best" project portfolio out of a given set of investment proposals. As this dec...
Karl F. Doerner, Walter J. Gutjahr, Richard F. Har...
Edge Assembly Crossover (EAX) is by far the most successful crossover operator in solving the traveling salesman problem (TSP) with Genetic Algorithms (GAs). Various improvements ...
This paper proposes a clustering method SOMAK, which is composed by Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) followed by the Ant K-means (AK) algorithm. The aim of this method is not to find an...
Jefferson R. Souza, Teresa Bernarda Ludermir, Lean...
Frequency planning is a very important task for current GSM operators. In this work we present a new mathematical formulation of the problem in which the frequency plans are evalu...
Francisco Luna, Christian Blum, Enrique Alba, Anto...
: In this paper we propose a new approach to Swarm Intelligence called Two-Step Swarm Intelligence. The basic idea is to split the heuristic search performed by agents into two sta...