Abstract- The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis. Inspired by examples from...
Alexander S. Klyubin, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L...
Noun phrases of a document usually are the main information bearers. Thus, the detection of these units is crucial in many applications related to information retrieval, such as co...
Mining is an important industry in Australia, contributing billions of dollars to the economy. The performance of a processing plant has a large impact on the profitability of a m...
Simon Huband, Luigi Barone, Philip Hingston, R. Ly...
The complex interactions of natural swarms, for example formed by some social insects, are difficult to comprehend. Considering tasks such as nestbuilding, the necessary underlyin...
Sebastian von Mammen, Christian Jacob, Gabriella K...
We solve the Flexible Job-Shop Problem (FJSP) by using dispatching rules discovered through Genetic Programming (GP). While Simple Priority Rules (SPR) have been widely applied in ...
Abstract- The complexity of the static scheduling problem on heterogeneous resources has motivated the development of low complexity heuristics such as list scheduling. However, th...
Many retailers run loyalty card schemes for their customers offering incentives in the form of money off coupons. The total value of the coupons depends on how much the customer ha...
Stephen Swift, Amy Shi, Jason Crampton, Allan Tuck...
When evolutionary algorithms are used for solving numerical constrained optimization problems, how to deal with the relationship between feasible and infeasible individuals can dir...