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PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Optimizing Delivery Time in Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows involves finding the lowest-cost set of routes to deliver goods to customers, which have service time windows, using a homogeneous ...
Abel Garcia-Najera, John A. Bullinaria
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evolving a Single Scalable Controller for an Octopus Arm with a Variable Number of Segments
Abstract. While traditional approaches to machine learning are sensitive to highdimensional state and action spaces, this paper demonstrates how an indirectly encoded neurocontroll...
Brian G. Woolley, Kenneth O. Stanley
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Design and Comparison of two Evolutionary Approaches for Solving the Rubik's Cube
Solutions calculated by Evolutionary Algorithms have come to surpass exact methods for solving various problems. The Rubik’s Cube multiobjective optimization problem is one such ...
Nail El-Sourani, Markus Borschbach
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Topography-Aware Sensor Deployment Optimization with CMA-ES
Abstract. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have been studied intensively for various applications such as monitoring and surveillance. Sensor deployment is an essential part of WSN, ...
Vahab Akbarzadeh, Albert Hung-Ren Ko, Christian Ga...
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Variable Neighborhood Search and Ant Colony Optimization for the Rooted Delay-Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem
Abstract. The rooted delay-constrained minimum spanning tree problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem arising for example in the design of centralized broadcasting ...
Mario Ruthmair, Günther R. Raidl
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Privacy-Preserving Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms
Existing privacy-preserving evolutionary algorithms are limited to specific problems securing only cost function evaluation. This lack of functionality and security prevents thei...
Daniel Funke, Florian Kerschbaum
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Ant Colony Optimization with Immigrants Schemes in Dynamic Environments
Abstract. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in addressing dynamic optimization problems (DOPs) using evolutionary algorithms (EAs). Several approaches have been de...
Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Shengxiang Yang
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Speculative Evaluation in Particle Swarm Optimization
Matthew Gardner, Andrew W. McNabb, Kevin D. Seppi
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Testing the Dinosaur Hypothesis under Empirical Datasets
In this paper we present the Dinosaur Hypothesis, which states that the behaviour of a market never settles down and that the population of predictors continually co-evolves with t...
Michael Kampouridis, Shu-Heng Chen, Edward P. K. T...
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Mirrored Sampling and Sequential Selection for Evolution Strategies
This paper reveals the surprising result that a single-parent non-elitist evolution strategy (ES) can be locally faster than the (1+1)-ES. The result is brought about by mirrored s...
Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen, Dirk ...