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EOR
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Investigating a hybrid simulated annealing and local search algorithm for constrained optimization
Constrained Optimization Problems (COP) often take place in many practical applications such as kinematics, chemical process optimization, power systems and so on. These problems ...
Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu, Linet Özdamar
GECCO
2008
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Genetic algorithms with local search optimization for protein structure prediction problem
This paper presents a new Genetic Algorithm for Protein Structure Prediction problem in both 2D and 3D hydrophobichydrophilic lattice models, introduced in [1]. Our algorithm evol...
Igor Berenboym, Mireille Avigal
AMC
2004
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13 years 9 months ago
Performance comparison of memetic algorithms
Local search techniques have been applied in optimization methods. The effect of local search to the memetic algorithms can make multimodal and non-linear problems easier to solve...
Jason G. Digalakis, Konstantinos G. Margaritis
GECCO
2004
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Randomized Local Search, Evolutionary Algorithms, and the Minimum Spanning Tree Problem
Randomized search heuristics, among them randomized local search and evolutionary algorithms, are applied to problems whose structure is not well understood, as well as to problems...
Frank Neumann, Ingo Wegener
WSC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Global Likelihood Optimization Via the Cross-Entropy Method, with an Application to Mixture Models
Global likelihood maximization is an important aspect of many statistical analyses. Often the likelihood function is highly multi-extremal. This presents a significant challenge t...
Zdravko I. Botev, Dirk P. Kroese