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GECCO
2010
Springer
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14 years 23 days ago
Evolving viral marketing strategies
One method of viral marketing involves seeding certain consumers within a population to encourage faster adoption of the product throughout the entire population. However, determi...
Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand, Uri Wilensky
GECCO
2010
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Efficiently evolving programs through the search for novelty
A significant challenge in genetic programming is premature convergence to local optima, which often prevents evolution from solving problems. This paper introduces to genetic pro...
Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Learning to Walk through Imitation
Programming a humanoid robot to walk is a challenging problem in robotics. Traditional approaches rely heavily on prior knowledge of the robot's physical parameters to devise...
Rawichote Chalodhorn, David B. Grimes, Keith Groch...
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Orientation-dependent backbone-only residue pair scoring functions for fixed backbone protein design
Background: Empirical scoring functions have proven useful in protein structure modeling. Most such scoring functions depend on protein side chain conformations. However, backbone...
Andrew J. Bordner
IOR
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Impulse Control of Brownian Motion: The Constrained Average Cost Case
When a manufacturer places repeated orders with a supplier to meet changing production requirements, he faces the challenge of finding the right balance between holding costs and ...
Melda Ormeci, J. G. Dai, John H. Vande Vate