Abstract. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a paradigm that employs a set of cooperating agents to solve functions or obtain good solutions for combinatorial optimization problems. ...
One common characterization of how simple hill-climbing optimization methods can fail is that they become trapped in local optima - a state where no small modi cation of the curren...
In the classic Josephus problem, elements 1, 2, . . . , n are placed in order around a circle and a skip value k is chosen. The problem proceeds in n rounds, where each round consi...
Abstract. This paper presents an empirical study of population diversity measure and adaptive control of diversity in the context of a permutation-based algorithm for Traveling Sal...
Abstract. Distributed case-based reasoning architectures have the potential to improve the overall performance of case-based reasoning systems. In this paper we describe a collabor...