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CEC
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
2011
IEEE
—Stochastic relaxation aims at finding the minimum of a fitness function by identifying a proper sequence of distributions, in a given model, that minimize the expected value o...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
We address in this paper the problem of segmenting complex handritten pages such as novelist drafts or authorial manuscripts. We propose to use stochastic and contextual models in...
GECCO
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2004
Springer
Previous work investigating the performance of genetic algorithms (GAs) has attempted to develop a set of fitness landscapes, called “Royal Roads” functions, which should be id...
WSC
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
We present a new random search method for solving simulation optimization problems. Our approach emphasizes the need for maintaining the right balance between exploration and expl...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2004
ACM
In this paper, we combine two approaches to handling uncertainty: we use techniques for finding optimal solutions in the expected sense to solve combinatorial optimization proble...