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BCS
2008
15 years 6 months ago
A Hardware Relaxation Paradigm for Solving NP-Hard Problems
Digital circuits with feedback loops can solve some instances of NP-hard problems by relaxation: the circuit will either oscillate or settle down to a stable state that represents...
Paul Cockshott, Andreas Koltes, John O'Donnell, Pa...
IPCO
2008
221views Optimization» more  IPCO 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
A Comparative Study of Linear and Semidefinite Branch-and-Cut Methods for Solving the Minimum Graph Bisection Problem
Abstract. Semidefinite relaxations are known to deliver good approximations for combinatorial optimization problems like graph bisection. Using the spectral bundle method it is pos...
Michael Armbruster, Marzena Fügenschuh, Chris...
HEURISTICS
2007
76views more  HEURISTICS 2007»
15 years 4 months ago
Metaheuristics can solve sudoku puzzles
: In this paper we present, to our knowledge, the first application of a metaheuristic technique to the very popular and NP-complete puzzle known as ‘sudoku’. We see that this ...
Rhyd Lewis
IANDC
2007
123views more  IANDC 2007»
15 years 4 months ago
Hardness of fully dense problems
In the past decade, there has been a stream of work in designing approximation schemes for dense instances of NP-Hard problems. These include the work of Arora, Karger and Karpins...
Nir Ailon, Noga Alon
IEAAIE
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Web Usage Mining for Improving Students Performance in Learning Management Systems
An innovative technique based on multi-objective grammar guided genetic programming (MOG3P-MI) is proposed to detect the most relevant activities that a student needs to pass a cou...
Amelia Zafra, Sebastián Ventura