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GECCO
2005
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Ant colony optimization for power plant maintenance scheduling optimization
In order to maintain a reliable and economic electric power supply, the maintenance of power plants is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, a formulation that enables a...
Wai-Kuan Foong, Holger R. Maier, Angus R. Simpson
IOR
2007
119views more  IOR 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
A Decentralized Approach to Discrete Optimization via Simulation: Application to Network Flow
We study a new class of decentralized algorithms for discrete optimization via simulation, which is inspired by the fictitious play algorithm applied to games with identical inte...
Alfredo Garcia, Stephen D. Patek, Kaushik Sinha
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A comparison of search heuristics for empirical code optimization
—This paper describes the application of various search techniques to the problem of automatic empirical code optimization. The search process is a critical aspect of auto-tuning...
Keith Seymour, Haihang You, Jack Dongarra
IJCSA
2007
110views more  IJCSA 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Multiprocessor Scheduling Using Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization with Dynamically Varying Inertia
The problem of task assignment in heterogeneous computing systems has been studied for many years with many variations. We have developed a new hybrid approximation algorithm. The...
S. N. Sivanandam, P. Visalakshi, A. Bhuvaneswari
ICTAI
2000
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Constrained genetic algorithms and their applications in nonlinear constrained optimization
This paper presents a problem-independent framework that uni es various mechanisms for solving discrete constrained nonlinear programming (NLP) problems whose functions are not ne...
Benjamin W. Wah, Yixin Chen