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COMPSAC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Infrastructure Hardening: A Competitive Coevolutionary Methodology Inspired by Neo-Darwinian Arms Races
The world is increasingly dependent on critical infrastructures such as the electric power grid, water, gas, and oil transport systems, which are susceptible to cascading failures...
Travis C. Service, Daniel R. Tauritz, William M. S...
ICNC
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
An Improved Greedy Genetic Algorithm for Solving Travelling Salesman Problem
—Genetic algorithm (GA) is too dependent on the initial population and a lack of local search ability. In this paper, an improved greedy genetic algorithm (IGAA) is proposed to o...
Zhenchao Wang, Haibin Duan, Xiangyin Zhang
ICIC
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
An Improved Nested Partitions Algorithm Based on Simulated Annealing in Complex Decision Problem Optimization
: - This paper introduces the main ideas of the nested partitions (NP) method, analyses its efficiency theoretically and proposes the way to improve the optimization efficiency of ...
Yan Luo, Changrui Yu
PVM
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Some Improvements to a Parallel Decomposition Technique for Training Support Vector Machines
We consider a parallel decomposition technique for solving the large quadratic programs arising in training the learning methodology Support Vector Machine. At each iteration of th...
Thomas Serafini, Luca Zanni, Gaetano Zanghirati
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Improving System Dependability with Functional Alternatives
We present the concept of alternative functionality for improving dependability in distributed embedded systems. Alternative functionality is a mechanism that complements traditio...
Charles P. Shelton, Philip Koopman