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SIGECOM
2003
ACM
122views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
14 years 4 months ago
On polynomial-time preference elicitation with value queries
Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
Martin Zinkevich, Avrim Blum, Tuomas Sandholm
CEC
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Cost-benefit analysis of using heuristics in ACGP
—Constrained Genetic Programming (CGP) is a method of searching the Genetic Programming search space non-uniformly, giving preferences to certain subspaces according to some heur...
John W. Aleshunas, Cezary Z. Janikow
GECCO
2007
Springer
183views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Screening the parameters affecting heuristic performance
This research screens the tuning parameters of a combinatorial optimization heuristic. Specifically, it presents a Design of Experiments (DOE) approach that uses a Fractional Fac...
Enda Ridge, Daniel Kudenko
CDC
2009
IEEE
208views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 1 days ago
Sensor selection for hypothesis testing in wireless sensor networks: a Kullback-Leibler based approach
We consider the problem of selecting a subset of p out of n sensors for the purpose of event detection, in a wireless sensor network (WSN). Occurrence or not of the event of intere...
Dragana Bajovic, Bruno Sinopoli, João Xavie...
JCO
2011
115views more  JCO 2011»
13 years 5 months ago
Approximation scheme for restricted discrete gate sizing targeting delay minimization
Discrete gate sizing is a critical optimization in VLSI circuit design. Given a set of available gate sizes, discrete gate sizing problem asks to assign a size to each gate such th...
Chen Liao, Shiyan Hu