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CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
An Indirect Genetic Algorithm for a Nurse Scheduling Problem
This paper describes a Genetic Algorithms approach to a manpower-scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. Although Genetic Algorithms have been successfully used for sim...
Uwe Aickelin, Kathryn A. Dowsland
CLEIEJ
2004
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13 years 11 months ago
Pump Scheduling Optimization Using Asynchronous Parallel
Optimizing the pump-scheduling is an interesting proposal to achieve cost reductions in water distribution pumping stations. As systems grow, pump-scheduling becomes a very diffic...
Christian von Lücken, Benjamín Bar&aac...
CLOUDCOM
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Scaling Populations of a Genetic Algorithm for Job Shop Scheduling Problems Using MapReduce
Inspired by Darwinian evolution, a genetic algorithm (GA) approach is one of the popular heuristic methods for solving hard problems, such as the Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP...
Di-Wei Huang, Jimmy Lin
SAGA
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A VNS Algorithm for Noisy Problems and Its Application to Project Portfolio Analysis
Abstract. Motivated by an application in project portfolio analysis under uncertainty, we develop an algorithm S-VNS for solving stochastic combinatorial optimization (SCO) problem...
Walter J. Gutjahr, Stefan Katzensteiner, Peter Rei...
ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Multiple Relaxations in Temporal Planning
CRIKEY is a planner that separates out the scheduling from the classical parts of temporal planning. This can be seen as a relaxation of the temporal information during the classic...
Keith Halsey, Derek Long, Maria Fox