ISAMI
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Abstract Medical data sets consist of a huge amount of data organized in instances, where each one contains several attributes. The quality of the models obtained from a database s...
COR
2006
14 years 19 days ago
2006
In this paper we develop a variable neighborhood search (VNS) heuristic for solving mixed-integer programs (MIPs). It uses CPLEX, the general-purpose MIP solver, as a black-box. N...
HEURISTICS
2008
14 years 19 days ago
2008
In this article we investigate a new variant of Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS): Relaxation Guided Variable Neighborhood Search. It is based on the general VNS scheme and a new...
EOR
2008
14 years 20 days ago
2008
We suggest a new heuristic for solving unconstrained continuous optimization problems. It is based on a generalized version of the variable neighborhood search metaheuristic. Diff...
BMCBI
2008
14 years 21 days ago
2008
Background: Protein structure comparison is a key problem in bioinformatics. There exist several methods for doing protein comparison, being the solution of the Maximum Contact Ma...
SAGA
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. Motivated by an application in project portfolio analysis under uncertainty, we develop an algorithm S-VNS for solving stochastic combinatorial optimization (SCO) problem...
SAINT
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
We present a Variable Neighborhood Search approach for a network design problem occurring in real world when the bandwidth of an existing network shall be enhanced. Using two diff...
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
— In this work we show that a metaheuristic, the Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS), can be effectively used in order to improve the performance of the hardware–friendly versio...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper proposes two modifications to the geometrically deformable template model. First, the optimization stage originally based on simulated annealing is replaced with a meta...