Combinatorial optimization problems are often encountered in real-world applications, including logistics, scheduling and ...

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Over the past decade, Professor L. Mahadevan's Soft Math Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has helped establish how the ancient Japanese paper arts ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new approach to acquiring and using problem specific knowledge during a genetic algorithm (GA) search. A GA augmented with a case-based memory of past problem solving ...

Abstract: Meta-heuristic algorithms search the problem solution space to obtain a satisfactory solution within a reasonable timeframe. By combining domain knowledge of the specific optimization ...