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EMO
2006
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Multiplex PCR Assay Design by Hybrid Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm
Abstract. Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assay is to amplify multiple target DNAs simultaneously using different primer pairs for each target DNA. Recently, it is widely...
In-Hee Lee, Soo-Yong Shin, Byoung-Tak Zhang
CPAIOR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Connections in Networks: A Hybrid Approach
This paper extends our previous work by exploring the use of a hybrid solution method for solving the connection subgraph problem. We employ a two phase solution method, which dras...
Carla P. Gomes, Willem Jan van Hoeve, Ashish Sabha...
TSMC
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Optimizing Discounted Cash Flows in Project Scheduling - An Ant Colony Optimization Approach
Abstract--The multimode resource-constrained projectscheduling problem with discounted cash flows (MRCPSPDCF) is important and challenging for project management. As the problem is...
Wei-neng Chen, Jun Zhang, Henry Shu-Hung Chung, Ru...
ESWA
2008
162views more  ESWA 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Proportionate flexible flow shop scheduling via a hybrid constructive genetic algorithm
The proportionate flow shop (PFS) is considered as a unique case of the flow shop problem in which the processing times of the operations belonging to the same job are equal. A pr...
Der-Fang Shiau, Shu-Chen Cheng, Yueh-Min Huang
CPAIOR
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Conflict-Directed A* Search for Soft Constraints
As many real-world problems involve user preferences, costs, or probabilities, constraint satisfaction has been extended to optimization by generalizing hard constraints to soft co...
Martin Sachenbacher, Brian C. Williams