Supply planning optimization is one of the most important issues for manufacturers and distributors. Supply is planned to meet the future demand. Under the uncertainty involved in ...
Abstract. There are conflicting reports over whether multiple independent runs of genetic algorithms (GAs) with small populations can reach solutions of higher quality or can fin...
Abstract. In this paper, we review some classical recombination operations and devise new heuristic recombinations for the fixed-length subset. Our experimental results on the cla...
Abstract. The problem of designing symmetric key cryptography algorithms based upon cellular automata (CAs) is considered. The reliability of the Vernam cipher used in the process ...
Franciszek Seredynski, Pascal Bouvry, Albert Y. Zo...
This paper presents a modification of the particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) intended to combat the problem of premature convergence observed in many applications of PSO. ...