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SAT
2010
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
An Empirical Study of Optimal Noise and Runtime Distributions in Local Search
This paper presents a detailed empirical study of local search for Boolean satisfiability (SAT), highlighting several interesting properties, some of which were previously unknown...
Lukas Kroc, Ashish Sabharwal, Bart Selman
EVOW
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Local Search Algorithms on Graphics Processing Units. A Case Study: The Permutation Perceptron Problem
Optimization problems are more and more complex and their resource requirements are ever increasing. Although metaheuristics allow to significantly reduce the computational complex...
Thé Van Luong, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghazali ...
PATAT
1995
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
A Memetic Algorithm for University Exam Timetabling
The scheduling of exams in institutions of higher education is known to be a highly constrained problem. The advent of modularity in many institutions in the UK has resulted in a s...
Edmund K. Burke, James P. Newall, Rupert F. Weare
AE
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
ParaDisEO-Based Design of Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms
ParaDisEO is a framework dedicated to the design of parallel and distributed metaheuristics including local search methods and evolutionary algorithms. This paper focuses on the la...
Sébastien Cahon, Nordine Melab, El-Ghazali ...
FOCI
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On the Influence of Phenotype Plasticity on Genotype Diversity
A large body of research has investigated the advantages of combining phenotype adaptation and genotype adaptation. The hybridization of genetic search and local search methods, of...
Ingo Paenke, Jürgen Branke, Yaochu Jin
IAT
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Hybrid of Inference and Local Search for Distributed Combinatorial Optimization
We present a new hybrid algorithm for local search in distributed combinatorial optimization. This method is a mix between classical local search methods in which nodes take decis...
Adrian Petcu, Boi Faltings