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PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
IROS
2006
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 29 days ago
Estimating Probability Distribution with Q-learning for Biped Gait Generation and Optimization
— A new biped gait generation and optimization method is proposed in the frame of Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) with Q-learning method. By formulating the biped ga...
Lingyun Hu, Changjiu Zhou, Zengqi Sun
SAC
2003
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
Manpower Scheduling with Time Windows
In this paper, we propose a manpower allocation model with time windows which is of practical interest to serviceman scheduling operations. Specifically, this problem originates f...
Andrew Lim, Brian Rodrigues, Lei Song
GIS
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The multi-rule partial sequenced route query
Trip planning search (TPS) represents an important class of queries in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In many real-world applications, TPS requests are issued with a number...
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, Roger Zimm...
BMCBI
2006
113views more  BMCBI 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
GibbsST: a Gibbs sampling method for motif discovery with enhanced resistance to local optima
Background: Computational discovery of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) is a challenging but important problem of bioinformatics. In this study, improvement of a Gibbs sa...
Kazuhito Shida