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EMO
2001
Springer
100views Optimization» more  EMO 2001»
14 years 3 months ago
Fuzzy Evolutionary Hybrid Metaheuristic for Network Topology Design
Abstract. Topology design of enterprise networks is a hard combinatorial optimization problem. It has numerous constraints, several objectives, and a very noisy solution space. Bes...
Habib Youssef, Sadiq M. Sait, Salman A. Khan
CISS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Transmission coordination for ad hoc networks
— AHNs are wireless networks operating without the benefits of network infrastructure (basestations) or centralized control. AHNs working with limited spectrum perform best when...
Ananth V. Kini, Steven Weber, Fadi A. Aloul, Nagar...
GECCO
2006
Springer
287views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
A GA-ACO-local search hybrid algorithm for solving quadratic assignment problem
In recent decades, many meta-heuristics, including genetic algorithm (GA), ant colony optimization (ACO) and various local search (LS) procedures have been developed for solving a...
Yiliang Xu, Meng-Hiot Lim, Yew-Soon Ong, Jing Tang
ASIAN
1999
Springer
186views Algorithms» more  ASIAN 1999»
14 years 3 months ago
Ant Colony Optimization for the Ship Berthing Problem
Abstract. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a paradigm that employs a set of cooperating agents to solve functions or obtain good solutions for combinatorial optimization problems. ...
Chia Jim Tong, Hoong Chuin Lau, Andrew Lim
ISPD
1997
ACM
74views Hardware» more  ISPD 1997»
14 years 3 months ago
A matrix synthesis approach to thermal placement
— In this paper, we consider the thermal placement problem for gate arrays. We introduce a new combinatorial optimization problem, matrix synthesis problem (MSP), to model the th...
Chris C. N. Chu, D. F. Wong