ANOR
2010
14 years 2 months ago
2010
The design of effective neighborhood structures is fundamentally important for creating better local search and metaheuristic algorithms for combinatorial optimization. Significant...
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2007
IEEE
— Memetic algorithms (MAs) combine the global exploration abilities of evolutionary algorithms with a local search to further improve the solutions. While a neighborhood can be e...
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Distributed Constraints Optimization (DCOP) is a powerful framework for representing and solving distributed combinatorial problems, where the variables of the problem are owned b...
GECCO
2008
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2008
Springer
The landscape formalism unites a finite candidate solution set to a neighborhood topology and an objective function. This construct can be used to model the behavior of local sea...
GECCO
2008
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2008
Springer
In this paper we propose a novel iterative search procedure for multi-objective optimization problems. The iteration process – though derivative free – utilizes the geometry o...
CEC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2010
IEEE
This paper proposes a two-phase hybrid approach for the travelling salesman problem (TSP). The first phase is based on a sequence based genetic algorithm (SBGA) with an embedded lo...
AAAI
1994
14 years 3 months ago
1994
It has recently been shown that local search is surprisingly good at nding satisfying assignments for certain computationally hard classes of CNF formulas. The performance of basi...
ICGA
1997
14 years 3 months ago
1997
This paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA) with specialized encoding, initialization and local search genetic operators to optimize communication network topologies. This NPhard...
AAAI
1997
14 years 3 months ago
1997
It is well known that the performance of a stochastic local search procedure depends upon the setting of its noise parameter, and that the optimal setting varies with the problem ...
AAAI
1997
14 years 3 months ago
1997
One of the important components of a local search strategy for satisfiability testing is the variable selection heuristic, which determines the next variable to be flipped. In a...