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Context. Mathematical optimization can be used as a computational tool to obtain the optimal solution to a given problem in a systematic and efficient way. For example, in twice-differentiable functions and problems with no constraints, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-25 J. Canto , S. Curiel , E. Martinez-Gomez

We propose an extended genetic algorithm (GA) with different local environmental conditions. Genetic entities, or configurations, are put on nodes in a ring structure, and location-dependent environmental conditions are applied for each…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-06-22 Daekyung Lee , Beom Jun Kim

Genetic Algorithm (GA) is a popular meta-heuristic evolutionary algorithm that uses stochastic operators to find optimal solution and has proved its effectiveness in solving many complex optimization problems (such as classification,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Fahad Maqbool , Muhammad Saad Razzaq , Hajira Jabeen

The structural design process for buildings is time-consuming and laborious. To automate this process, structural engineers combine optimization methods with simulation tools to find an optimal design with minimal building mass subject to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Kai-Hung Chang , Chin-Yi Cheng

Multiprocessor task scheduling is an important and computationally difficult problem. This paper proposes a comparison study of genetic algorithm and list scheduling algorithm. Both algorithms are naturally parallelizable but have heavy…

Performance · Computer Science 2010-02-08 S. R. Vijayalakshmi , G. Padmavathi

The implementation of adaptive genetic algorithms (AGA) for optimization problems has proven to be superior than many other methods due to its nature of producing more robust and high quality solutions. Considering the complexity involved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Brandon Willnecker , Mervlyn Moodley

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated significant potential in certain real-world industrial applications, yet its broader deployment remains limited by inherent challenges such as sample inefficiency and unstable learning dynamics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Tom Maus , Asma Atamna , Tobias Glasmachers

It has been widely recognized that the performance of a multi-agent system is highly affected by its organization. A large scale system may have billions of possible ways of organization, which makes it impractical to find an optimal choice…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Zhiqi Shen , Ling Yu , Han Yu

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems expose numerous design choices spanning query rewriting, chunking, retrieval depth, reranking, and context compression. In practice, these choices are often configured through heuristics,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhen Chen , Yibing Liu , Weihao Xie , Yu Liang , Peilin Chen , Shiqi Wang

Minimization of the number of cluster heads in a wireless sensor network is a very important problem to reduce channel contention and to improve the efficiency of the algorithm when executed at the level of cluster-heads. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-04-05 Ehsan Heidari , Ali Movaghar

Traditional stereo matching algorithms like Semi-Global Block Matching (SGBM) with Weighted Least Squares (WLS) filtering offer speed advantages over neural networks for UAV applications, generating disparity maps in approximately 0.5…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yida Lin , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang , Sam Schofield , Richard Green

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to discover drug candidates by finding molecules (ligands) that bind tightly to a disease-related protein (targets), which is the primary approach to computer-aided drug discovery. Recently, applying…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-01 Tianfan Fu , Wenhao Gao , Connor W. Coley , Jimeng Sun

In real-time trajectory planning for unmanned vehicles, on-board sensors, radars and other instruments are used to collect information on possible obstacles to be avoided and pathways to be followed. Since, in practice, observations of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-09-25 Adriano Zanin Zambom , Julian A. A. Collazos , Ronaldo Dias

Genetic algorithms, computer programs that simulate natural evolution, are increasingly applied across many disciplines. They have been used to solve various optimisation problems from neural network architecture search to strategic games,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Aymeric Vie , Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis , Doyne J. Farmer

In information retrieval research; Genetic Algorithms (GA) can be used to find global solutions in many difficult problems. This study used different similarity measures (Dice, Inner Product) in the VSM, for each similarity measure we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Eman Al Mashagba , Feras Al Mashagba , Mohammad Othman Nassar

This article seeks to contribute to a nuanced understanding of the integration of Design Structure Matrix (DSM) and genetic algorithms in the context of Complex Systems modelling described within Model-Based System Engineering approach. By…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Sebastien Dube , Mirna Ojeda , Jean-Marie Gauthier

This paper provides experimental experiences on two local search hybridized genetic algorithms in solving the uncapacitated examination timetabling problem. The proposed two hybrid algorithms use partition and priority based solution…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Ayse Aslan

Surface registration is a technique that is used in various areas such as object recognition and 3D model reconstruction. Problem of surface registration can be analyzed as an optimization problem of seeking a rigid motion between two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Vedran Hrgetić , Tomislav Pribanić

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as one of the effective methods to design the optimal neural network architecture automatically. Although neural architectures have achieved human-level performances in several tasks, few of them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Caiyang Yu , Xianggen Liu , Yifan Wang , Yun Liu , Wentao Feng , Deng Xiong , Chenwei Tang , Jiancheng Lv

Recently, there emerged revived interests of designing automatic programs (e.g., using genetic/evolutionary algorithms) to optimize the structure of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for a specific task. The challenge in designing such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Zhe Li , Xuehan Xiong , Zhou Ren , Ning Zhang , Xiaoyu Wang , Tianbao Yang