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PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Dynamic Routing Problems with Fruitful Regions: Models and Evolutionary Computation
Abstract. We introduce the concept of fruitful regions in a dynamic routing context: regions that have a high potential of generating loads to be transported. The objective is to m...
Jano I. van Hemert, Johannes A. La Poutré
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Group Transport of an Object to a Target That Only Some Group Members May Sense
This paper addresses the cooperative transport of a heavy object, called prey, towards a sporadically changing target location by a group of robots. The study is focused on the sit...
Roderich Groß, Marco Dorigo
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Detecting and Pruning Introns for Faster Decision Tree Evolution
We show how the understandability and speed of genetic programming classification algorithms can be improved, without affecting the classification accuracy. By analyzing the dec...
Jeroen Eggermont, Joost N. Kok, Walter A. Kosters
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Hybrid GRASP - Evolutionary Algorithm Approach to Golomb Ruler Search
We consider the problem of finding small Golomb rulers, a hard combinatorial optimization task. This problem is here tackled by means of a hybrid evolutionary algorithm (EA). This...
Carlos Cotta, Antonio J. Fernández
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Spread of Vector Borne Diseases in a Population with Spatial Structure
Mathematical modeling of the spread of infectious diseases is a well established field with high practical importance. Underlying most analytical approaches is the assumption of ...
Dominique Chu, Jonathan E. Rowe
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
AntHocNet: An Ant-Based Hybrid Routing Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
In this paper we present AntHocNet, a new algorithm for routing in mobile ad hoc networks. Due to the ever changing topology and limited bandwidth it is very hard to establish and ...
Gianni Di Caro, Frederick Ducatelle, Luca Maria Ga...
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Fitness Distributions and GA Hardness
Considerable research effort has been spent in trying to formulate a good definition of GA-Hardness. Given an instance of a problem, the objective is to estimate the performance of...
Yossi Borenstein, Riccardo Poli
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
The Application of Bayesian Optimization and Classifier Systems in Nurse Scheduling
Two ideas taken from Bayesian optimization and classifier systems are presented for personnel scheduling based on choosing a suitable scheduling rule from a set for each person’s...
Jingpeng Li, Uwe Aickelin
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
The Ising Model: Simple Evolutionary Algorithms as Adaptation Schemes
The investigation of evolutionary algorithms as adaptation schemes has a long history starting with Holland (1975). The Ising model from physics leads to a variety of different pr...
Patrick Briest, Dimo Brockhoff, Bastian Degener, M...
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
LS-CMA-ES: A Second-Order Algorithm for Covariance Matrix Adaptation
Abstract. Evolution Strategies, Evolutionary Algorithms based on Gaussian mutation and deterministic selection, are today considered the best choice as far as parameter optimizatio...
Anne Auger, Marc Schoenauer, Nicolas Vanhaecke