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ATMOS
2010
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13 years 10 months ago
Heuristics for the Traveling Repairman Problem with Profits
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...
Thijs Dewilde, Dirk Cattrysse, Sofie Coene, Frits ...
COR
2006
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14 years 19 days ago
Deconstructing Nowicki and Smutnicki's i-TSAB tabu search algorithm for the job-shop scheduling problem
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...
Jean-Paul Watson, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitle...
EOR
2008
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14 years 20 days ago
Fast heuristics for the Steiner tree problem with revenues, budget and hop constraints
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...
Alysson M. Costa, Jean-François Cordeau, Gi...
AES
2006
Springer
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14 years 20 days ago
ADSS: An approach to determining semantic similarity
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...
Lixin Han, Linping Sun, Guihai Chen, Li Xie
EOR
2010
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14 years 20 days ago
Adaptive Tabu Search for course timetabling
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...
Zhipeng Lü, Jin-Kao Hao
CCE
2008
14 years 21 days ago
Multiobjective optimization of multipurpose batch plants using superequipment class concept
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...
Andrej Mosat, Laurent Cavin, Ulrich Fischer 0002, ...
WSC
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Simulation optimization using tabu search
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...
Berna Dengiz, Cigdem Alabas
AAAI
1997
14 years 1 months ago
Tabu Search for SAT
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...
Bertrand Mazure, Lakhdar Sais, Éric Gr&eacu...
GECCO
2000
Springer
150views Optimization» more  GECCO 2000»
14 years 4 months ago
A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem
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...
Manuel Vázquez, L. Darrell Whitley
IPPS
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Parallel Tabu Search in a Heterogeneous Environment
In this paper, we discuss a parallel tabu search algorithm with implementation in a heterogeneous environment. Two parallelization strategies are integrated: functional decomposit...
Ahmad A. Al-Yamani, Sadiq M. Sait, Hassan Barada, ...