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Rising provider turnover results in frequently needing to rematch patients with available providers. However, the rematching process is cumbersome for both patients and health systems, resulting in labor-intensive and ad hoc reassignments.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Naveen Raman , Holly Wiberg

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are powerful metaheuristic techniques mostly used in many real-world applications. The sequential execution of GAs requires considerable computational power both in time and resources. Nevertheless, GAs are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Filomena Ferrucci , M-Tahar Kechadi , Pasquale Salza , Federica Sarro

This paper proposed a novel large neighborhood search-adaptive genetic algorithm (LNS-AGA) for many-to-many on-orbit repairing mission planning of geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellites with mission deadline constraint. In the many-to-many…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Peng Han , Yanning Guo , Chuanjiang Li , Hui Zhi , Yueyong Lv

Many real-world optimization problems are not naturally homogeneous vectors but composite design objects with heterogeneous parameters: integers, real values, Booleans, categoricals, complex-valued descriptors, and embedding vectors.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Alex Bogdan

Large-scale genomic workflows used in precision medicine can process datasets spanning tens to hundreds of gigabytes per sample, leading to high memory spikes, intensive disk I/O, and task failures due to out-of-memory errors. Simple static…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Daniel Mas Montserrat , Ray Verma , Míriam Barrabés , Francisco M. de la Vega , Carlos D. Bustamante , Alexander G. Ioannidis

This paper addresses the optimization of human-robot collaborative work-cells before their physical deployment. Most of the times, such environments are designed based on the experience of the system integrators, often leading to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Christian Cella , Matteo Bruce Robin , Marco Faroni , Andrea Maria Zanchettin , Paolo Rocco

Most genetic algorithms (GAs) used in literature to solve control problems are time consuming and involve important storage memory requirements. In fact, the search in GAs is iteratively performed on a population of chromosomes (control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-12 M. Oulghelou , C. Allery

This paper investigates a novel problem, namely the Uncertain Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling Problem (UAEOSSP). Unlike the static AEOSSP, it takes into account a range of uncertain factors (e.g., task profit, resource…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yuning Chen , Junhua Xue , Wangqi Gu , Mingyan Shao

Understanding how crossover works is still one of the big challenges in evolutionary computation research, and making our understanding precise and proven by mathematical means might be an even bigger one. As one of few examples where…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Benjamin Doerr , Carola Doerr

This study presents a comprehensive approach for optimizing the acquisition, utilization, and maintenance of ABLVR vascular robots in healthcare settings. Medical robotics, particularly in vascular treatments, necessitates precise resource…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zixi Wang , Yubo Huang , Yukai Zhang , Yifei Sheng , Xin Lai , Peng Lu

The aim of this research is twofold: Firstly, to model and solve a complex nurse scheduling problem with an integer programming formulation and evolutionary algorithms. Secondly, to detail a novel statistical method of comparing and hence…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Uwe Aickelin , Paul White

Our research has shown that schedules can be built mimicking a human scheduler by using a set of rules that involve domain knowledge. This chapter presents a Bayesian Optimization Algorithm (BOA) for the nurse scheduling problem that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Jingpeng Li , Uwe Aickelin

In massive machine-type communications (mMTC), grant-free access is a key enabler for a massive number of users to be connected to a base station with low signaling overhead and low latency. In this paper, a two-stage genetic algorithm (GA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Nam Yul Yu

The goal of this project is to develop the Genetic Algorithms (GA) for solving the Schaffer F6 function in fewer than 4000 function evaluations on a total of 30 runs. Four types of Genetic Algorithms (GA) are presented - Generational GA…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Alison Jenkins , Vinika Gupta , Alexis Myrick , Mary Lenoir

We consider the problem of scheduling appointments for a finite customer population to a service facility with customer no-shows, to minimize the sum of customer waiting time and server overtime costs. Since appointments need to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Mor Armony , Rami Atar , Harsha Honnappa

Airline crew pairing optimization problem (CPOP) aims to find a set of flight sequences (crew pairings) that cover all flights in an airline's highly constrained flight schedule at minimum cost. Since crew cost is second only to the fuel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Divyam Aggarwal , Dhish Kumar Saxena , Thomas Back , Michael Emmerich

This study presents a system integration approach for planning schedules, sequences, tasks, and motions for reconfigurable robots to automatically disassemble constrained structures in a non-destructive manner. Such systems must adapt their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Takuya Kiyokawa , Tomoki Ishikura , Shingo Hamada , Genichiro Matsuda , Kensuke Harada

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

We study a multi-objective scheduling problem on two dedicated processors. The aim is to minimize simultaneously the makespan, the total tardiness and the total completion time. This NP-hard problem requires the use of well-adapted methods.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Adel Kacem , Abdelaziz Dammak

Quantum computing leverages the unique properties of qubits and quantum parallelism to solve problems intractable for classical systems, offering unparalleled computational potential. However, the optimization of quantum circuits remains…