In recent years backtrack search SAT solvers have been the subject of dramatic improvements. These improvements allowed SAT solvers to successfully replace BDDs in many areas of f...
A very undesirable behavior of any heuristic algorithm is to be stuck in some specific parts of the search space, in particular in the basins of attraction of the local optima. Wh...
Daniel Cosmin Porumbel, Jin-Kao Hao, Pascale Kuntz
In this paper, we present the parallelization of tabu search on a network of workstations using PVM. Two parallelization strategies are integrated: functional decomposition strate...
Ahmad A. Al-Yamani, Sadiq M. Sait, Habib Youssef, ...
: Nowadays Personal Computers (PCs) are often equipped with powerful, multi-core CPU. However, the processing power of the modern PC does not depend only of the processing power of...
Adam Janiak, Wladyslaw A. Janiak, Maciej Lichtenst...
This paper examines a network design problem that arises in the telecommunications industry. In this problem, communication between a gateway vertex and a number of demand vertice...
David Berger, Bernard Gendron, Jean-Yves Potvin, S...