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EPS
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Evolutionary Algorithms for Vertex Cover
This paper reports work investigating various evolutionary approaches to vertex cover (VC), a well-known NP-Hard optimization problem. Central to each of the algorithms is a novel ...
Isaac K. Evans
PARA
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Exploiting Visualization and Direct Manipulation to Make Parallel Tools More Communicative
Parallel tools rely on graphical techniques to improve the quality of user interaction. In this paper, we explore how visualization and direct manipulation can be exploited in para...
Cherri M. Pancake
SEAL
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Hybrid Tabu Search Algorithm for the Nurse Rostering Problem
Abstract. This paper deals with the problem of nurse rostering in Belgian hospitals. This is a highly constrained real world problem that was (until the results of this research we...
Edmund K. Burke, Patrick De Causmaecker, Greet Van...
AAAI
1998
13 years 9 months ago
Feature Generation for Sequence Categorization
The problem of sequence categorization is to generalize from a corpus of labeled sequences procedures for accurately labeling future unlabeled sequences. The choice of representat...
Daniel Kudenko, Haym Hirsh
ACL
1998
13 years 9 months ago
Error-Driven Pruning of Treebank Grammars for Base Noun Phrase Identification
Finding simple, non-recursive, base noun phrases is an important subtask for many natural language processing applications. While previous empirical methods for base NP identifica...
Claire Cardie, David R. Pierce