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SAGT
2009
Springer
108views Game Theory» more  SAGT 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
On the Planner's Loss Due to Lack of Information in Bayesian Mechanism Design
In this paper we study a large class of resource allocation problems with an important complication, the utilization cost of a given resource is private information of a profit ma...
José R. Correa, Nicolas Figueroa
CISS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Distributed algorithm and reversible network
Motivated to design a feasible optical network architecture for the future Internet, we address the question of scheduling (wavelength assignment) in an optical network. The key ch...
Shreevatsa Rajagopalan, Devavrat Shah
GECCO
2007
Springer
150views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Credit assignment in adaptive memetic algorithms
Adaptive Memetic Algorithms couple an evolutionary algorithm with a number of local search heuristics for improving the evolving solutions. They are part of a broad family of meta...
J. E. Smith
SLS
2007
Springer
103views Algorithms» more  SLS 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Designing and Tuning SLS Through Animation and Graphics: An Extended Walk-Through
Stochastic Local Search (SLS) is quite effective for a variety of Combinatorial (Optimization) Problems (COP). However, the performance of SLS depends on several factors and getti...
Steven Halim, Roland H. C. Yap
UIST
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Viz: a visual analysis suite for explaining local search behavior
NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems are common in real life. Due to their intractability, local search algorithms are often used to solve such problems. Since these algori...
Steven Halim, Roland H. C. Yap, Hoong Chuin Lau