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CP
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Minimizing the Maximum Number of Open Stacks by Customer Search
We describe a new exact solver for the minimization of open stacks problem (MOSP). By combining nogood recording with a branch and bound strategy based on choosing which customer s...
Geoffrey Chu, Peter J. Stuckey
CP
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Search Strategies for Rectangle Packing
Rectangle (square) packing problems involve packing all squares with sizes 1 × 1 to n × n into the minimum area enclosing rectangle (respectively, square). Rectangle packing is a...
Helmut Simonis, Barry O'Sullivan
CSCLP
2004
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Characterization of a New Restart Strategy for Randomized Backtrack Search
We propose an improved restart strategy for randomized backtrack search, and evaluate its performance by comparing to other heuristic and stochastic search techniques for solving r...
Venkata Praveen Guddeti, Berthe Y. Choueiry
CP
2000
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Optimal Anytime Constrained Simulated Annealing for Constrained Global Optimization
Abstract. In this paper we propose an optimal anytime version of constrained simulated annealing (CSA) for solving constrained nonlinear programming problems (NLPs). One of the goa...
Benjamin W. Wah, Yixin Chen
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...