ATMOS
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
In the traveling repairman problem with profits, a repairman (also known as the server) visits a subset of nodes in order to collect time-dependent profits. The objective consists...
COR
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Over the last decade and a half, tabu search algorithms for machine scheduling have gained a near-mythical reputation by consistently equaling or establishing state-of-the-art per...
EOR
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
This article describes and compares three heuristics for a variant of the Steiner tree problem with revenues, which includes budget and hop constraints. First, a greedy method whi...
AES
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
Determining the semantic similarity is an important issue in the development of semantic search technology. In this paper, we propose an approach to determining the semantic simil...
EOR
2010
13 years 11 months ago
2010
This paper presents an Adaptive Tabu Search algorithm (denoted by ATS) for solving a problem of curriculum-based course timetabling. The proposed algorithm follows a general frame...
CCE
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
We present a novel approach for solving different design problems related to single products in multipurpose batch plants: the selection of one production line out of several avai...
WSC
2000
14 years 27 days ago
2000
Investigation of the performance and operation of complex systems in manufacturing or other environments, analytical models of these systems become very complicated. Because of th...
AAAI
1997
14 years 27 days ago
1997
In this paper, tabu search for SAT is investigated from an experimental point of view. To this end, TSAT, a basic tabu search algorithm for SAT, is introduced and compared with Se...
GECCO
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2000
Springer
A heuristic technique that combines a genetic algorithm with a Tabu Search algorithm is applied to the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). The hybrid algorithm improves the result...
IPPS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
In this paper, we discuss a parallel tabu search algorithm with implementation in a heterogeneous environment. Two parallelization strategies are integrated: functional decomposit...