Abstract. We address a location-allocation problem that requires deciding the location of a set of facilities, the allocation of customers to those facilities under facility capaci...
To develop a science of small-group interaction in groupware, we need a method for analyzing the structure of computer-mediated discourse. Conversation analysis offers an analysis...
Markov Networks (also known as Markov Random Fields) have been proposed as a new approach to probabilistic modelling in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs). An EDA employ...
Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John A. W. McCall, Deryc...
This paper presents a new meta heuristic algorithm based on the search method called simulated annealing, and its application to solving multi objective simulation optimization pr...
Eduardo Alberto Avello, Felipe F. Baesler, Reinald...
The Steel Mill Slab Problem is an optimization benchmark that has been studied for a long time in the constraint-programming community but was only solved efficiently in the two l...
Pierre Schaus, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Jean-Noë...