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Consider a set of networked agents endowed with private cost functions and seeking to find a consensus on the minimizer of the aggregate cost. A new class of random asynchronous distributed optimization methods is introduced. The methods…

In this paper we propose a Multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization (MOACO) algorithm called CHAC, which has been designed to solve the problem of finding the path on a map (corresponding to a simulated battlefield) that minimizes resources…

Finding a zero of a sum of maximally monotone operators is a fundamental problem in modern optimization and nonsmooth analysis. Assuming that resolvents of the operators are available, this problem can be tackled with the Douglas-Rachford…

Douglas-Rachford method is a splitting algorithm for finding a zero of the sum of two maximal monotone operators. Weak convergence in this method to a solution of the underlying monotone inclusion problem in the general case remained an…

We propose a splitting method for solving an equilibrium problem involving the sum of two bifunctions satisfying standard conditions. We prove that this problem is equivalent to find a zero of two appropriate maximally monotone operators.…

We show that the weak convergence of the Douglas--Rachford algorithm for finding a zero of the sum of two maximally monotone operators cannot be improved to strong convergence. Likewise, we show that strong convergence can fail for the…

Finding a zero of the sum of two monotone operators is one of the most important problems in monotone operator theory, and the forward-backward algorithm is the most prominent approach for solving this type of problem. The aim of this paper…

This paper proposes a simple, automatic and efficient clustering algorithm, namely, Automatic Merging for Optimal Clusters (AMOC) which aims to generate nearly optimal clusters for the given datasets automatically. The AMOC is an extension…

We consider the monotone inclusion problem with a sum of 3 operators, in which 2 are monotone and 1 is monotone-Lipschitz. The classical Douglas--Rachford and Forward-backward-forward methods respectively solve the monotone inclusion…

Splitting algorithms for finding a zero of sum of operators often involve multiple steps which are referred to as forward or backward steps. Forward steps are the explicit use of the operators and backward steps involve the operators…

In this work, we propose and analyse forward-backward-type algorithms for finding a zero of the sum of finitely many monotone operators, which are not based on reduction to a two operator inclusion in the product space. Each iteration of…

The Douglas-Rachford splitting method is a classical and widely used algorithm for solving monotone inclusions involving the sum of two maximally monotone operators. It was recently shown to be the unique frugal, no-lifting…

In this paper a new evolutionary algorithm, for continuous nonlinear optimization problems, is surveyed. This method is inspired by the life of a bird, called Cuckoo. The Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm (COA) is evaluated by using the…

In this work we propose a new splitting technique, namely Asymmetric Forward-Backward-Adjoint splitting, for solving monotone inclusions involving three terms, a maximally monotone, a cocoercive and a bounded linear operator. Classical…

In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for program optimization which is based on aggressive aggregation, i.e., on a partial evaluation-based decomposition of acyclic program fragments into a pair of computationally optimal structures: an…

A probabilistic cellular automaton (PCA) can be viewed as a Markov chain. The cells are updated synchronously and independently, according to a distribution depending on a finite neighborhood. We investigate the ergodicity of this Markov…

This study introduces Skewed Fully Asynchronous Cellular Automata (SACA), a novel update scheme in cellular automata that updates the states of only two consecutive and adjacent cells, such as ci and ci+1, simultaneously at each time step.…

The Douglas-Rachford and Peaceman-Rachford algorithms have been successfully employed to solve convex optimization problems, or more generally find zeros of monotone inclusions. Recently, the behaviour of these methods in the inconsistent…

We present an algorithm for quantum-assisted cluster analysis (QACA) that makes use of the topological properties of a D-Wave 2000Q quantum processing unit (QPU). Clustering is a form of unsupervised machine learning, where instances are…

A new algorithm for calculating intermolecular pair forces in Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations on a distributed parallel computer is presented. The Arbitrary Interacting Cells Algorithm (AICA) is designed to operate on geometrical…