CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2008
Springer
The aim of this research is twofold: Firstly, to model and solve a complex nurse scheduling problem with an integer programming formulation and evolutionary algorithms. Secondly, ...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper examines the use of a hierarchical coevolutionary genetic algorithm under different partnering strategies. Cascading clusters of sub-populations are built from the bott...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper presents a new type of genetic algorithm for the set covering problem. It differs from previous evolutionary approaches first because it is an indirect algorithm, i.e. ...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2008
Springer
During our earlier research, it was recognised that in order to be successful with an indirect genetic algorithm approach using a decoder, the decoder has to strike a balance betw...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2008
Springer
For applications to cryptography, it is important to represent numbers with a small number of non-zero digits (Hamming weight) or with small absolute sum of digits. The problem of ...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2008
Springer
We consider a two-hop wireless network where a transmitter communicates with a receiver via M relays with an amplify-and-forward (AF) protocol. Recent works have shown that sophis...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2008
Springer
Various scenarios are considered where some information is more important than other and needs better protection. A general theoretical framework for unequal error protection is d...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2008
Springer
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2008
Springer
We describe SAFIUS, a secure accountable file system that resides over an untrusted storage. SAFIUS provides strong security guarantees like confidentiality, integrity, prevention ...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2008
Springer
We consider the problem of decentralized detection in a network consisting of a large number of nodes arranged as a tree of bounded height, under the assumption of conditionally in...