— Deceptive problems are a class of challenging problems for conventional genetic algorithms (GAs), which usually mislead the search to some local optima rather than the global o...
Yang Chen, Jinglu Hu, Kotaro Hirasawa, Songnian Yu
Covering arrays can be applied to the testing of software, hardware and advanced materials, and to the effects of hormone interaction on gene expression. In this paper we develop c...
Brahim Hnich, Steven David Prestwich, Evgeny Selen...
Covering arrays have been studied for their applications to drug screening and software and hardware testing. In this paper, we model the problem as a constraint program. Our propo...
Brahim Hnich, Steven David Prestwich, Evgeny Selen...
This paper discusses the effects of mutation and directed intervention crossover approaches when applied to the derivation of cancer chemotherapy treatment schedules. Unlike trad...
Paul M. Godley, David E. Cairns, Julie Cowie, Kevi...
Many combinatorial optimization problems such as the bin packing and multiple knapsack problems involve assigning a set of discrete objects to multiple containers. These problems ...