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LION
2007
Springer
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Evolution of Fitness Functions to Improve Heuristic Performance
In this paper we introduce the variable fitness function which can be used to control the search direction of any search based optimisation heuristic where more than one objective ...
Stephen Remde, Peter I. Cowling, Keshav P. Dahal, ...
LION
2007
Springer
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Nested Partitioning for the Minimum Energy Broadcast Problem
The problem of finding the broadcast scheme with minimum power consumption in a wireless ad-hoc network is NP-hard. This work presents a new hybrid algorithm to solve this problem...
Sameh Al-Shihabi, Peter Merz, Steffen Wolf
LION
2007
Springer
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A Continuous Characterization of Maximal Cliques in k-Uniform Hypergraphs
Abstract. In 1965 Motzkin and Straus established a remarkable connection between the local/global maximizers of the Lagrangian of a graph G over the standard simplex ∆ and the ma...
Samuel Rota Bulò, Marcello Pelillo
LION
2007
Springer
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Multiobjective Landscape Analysis and the Generalized Assignment Problem
The importance of tuning a search algorithm for the specific features of the target search space has been known for quite some time. However, when dealing with multiobjective prob...
Deon Garrett, Dipankar Dasgupta
LION
2007
Springer
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Learning While Optimizing an Unknown Fitness Surface
This paper is about Reinforcement Learning (RL) applied to online parameter tuning in Stochastic Local Search (SLS) methods. In particular a novel application of RL is considered i...
Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Paolo Campigotto
LION
2007
Springer
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Limited-Memory Techniques for Sensor Placement in Water Distribution Networks
Abstract. The practical utility of optimization technologies is often impacted by factors that reflect how these tools are used in practice, including whether various real-world c...
William E. Hart, Jonathan W. Berry, Erik G. Boman,...