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In unstructured environments like parking lots or construction sites, due to the large search-space and kinodynamic constraints of the vehicle, it is challenging to achieve real-time planning. Several state-of-the-art planners utilize…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Bhargav Adabala , Zlatan Ajanović

Solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) (e.g., traveling salesman problems (TSPs) and capacitated vehicle routing problems (CVRPs)) in practice traditionally involves handcrafting heuristics or specifying a search space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Nguyen Thach , Aida Riahifar , Nathan Huynh , Hau Chan

Future 5G wireless networks will rely on agile and automated network management, where the usage of diverse resources must be jointly optimized with surgical accuracy. A number of key wireless network functionalities (e.g., traffic…

We propose simple heuristics for the assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem. This problem typically occurs in assembly lines in sheltered work centers for the disabled. Different from the classical simple assembly line…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Mayron César O. Moreira , Marcus Ritt , Alysson M. Costa , Antonio A. Chaves

Designing heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) is a fundamental yet challenging task that traditionally requires extensive domain expertise. Recently, Large Language Model (LLM)-based Automated Heuristic Design (AHD)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Bin Chen , Shouliang Zhu , Beidan Liu , Yong Zhao , Tianle Pu , Huichun Li , Zhengqiu Zhu

We posit that we can generate more robust and performant heuristics if we augment approaches using LLMs for heuristic design with tools that explain why heuristics underperform and suggestions about how to fix them. We find even simple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Pantea Karimi , Dany Rouhana , Pooria Namyar , Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla , Venkat Arun , Behnaz Arzani

Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled automated heuristic design (AHD) for combinatorial optimization problems (COPs), but existing frameworks' reliance on fixed evolutionary rules and static prompt templates often leads to myopic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Oguzhan Gungordu , Siheng Xiong , Faramarz Fekri

Link prediction is a fundamental task in graph learning, inherently shaped by the topology of the graph. While traditional heuristics are grounded in graph topology, they encounter challenges in generalizing across diverse graphs. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Juzheng Zhang , Lanning Wei , Zhen Xu , Quanming Yao

This paper presents a non-manual design engineering method based on heuristic search algorithm to search for candidate agents in the solution space which formed by artificial intelligence agents modeled on the base of bionics.Compared with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Zengkun Li

Spatial puzzles composed of rigid objects, flexible strings and holes offer interesting domains for reasoning about spatial entities that are common in the human daily-life's activities. The goal of this work is to investigate the automated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Thiago Freitas dos Santos , Paulo E. Santos , Leonardo A. Ferreira , Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi , Pedro Cabalar

Planning a network of public transit routes is a challenging optimization problem. Metaheuristic algorithms search through the space of possible transit networks by applying heuristics that randomly alter routes in a network. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Andrew Holliday , Ahmed El-Geneidy , Gregory Dudek

Multicast is a central challenge for emerging multi-hop wireless architectures such as wireless mesh networks, because of its substantial cost in terms of bandwidth. In this report, we study one specific case of multicast: broadcasting,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-04-16 Song Yean Cho , Cédric Adjih , Philippe Jacquet

We consider wireless mesh networks and the problem of routing end-to-end traffic over multiple paths for the same origin-destination pair with minimal interference. We introduce a heuristic for path determination with two distinguishing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-11 Fabio R. J. Vieira , José F. de Rezende , Valmir C. Barbosa , Serge Fdida

A Mobile Ad hoc Network can be said as a collection of mobile nodes, which builds a dynamic topology and a resource constrained network. Due to dynamic nature routing is challenging in MANET. In Mobile Ad hoc Networks different type of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Kishan N. Patel , Rutvij H. Jhaveri

Airport ground handling (AGH) offers necessary operations to flights during their turnarounds and is of great importance to the efficiency of airport management and the economics of aviation. Such a problem involves the interplay among the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yaoxin Wu , Jianan Zhou , Yunwen Xia , Xianli Zhang , Zhiguang Cao , Jie Zhang

In the photonic design problem, a scientist or engineer chooses the physical parameters of a device to best match some desired device behavior. Many instances of the photonic design problem can be naturally stated as a mathematical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Guillermo Angeris , Jelena Vučković , Stephen Boyd

Given a network, the critical node detection problem finds a subset of nodes whose removal disrupts the network connectivity. Since many real-world systems are naturally modeled as graphs, assessing the vulnerability of the network is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Tuguldur Bayarsaikhan , Altannar Chinchuluun , Ashwin Arulselvan , Panos Pardalos

Domain-independent planning is one of the foundational areas in the field of Artificial Intelligence. A description of a planning task consists of an initial world state, a goal, and a set of actions for modifying the world state. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Carmel Domshlak , Erez Karpas , Shaul Markovitch

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an extensive scientific discipline which enables computer systems to solve problems by emulating complex biological processes such as learning, reasoning and self-correction. This paper presents a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Javier Mata , Ignacio de Miguel , Ramó n J. Durá n , Noemí Merayo , Sandeep Kumar Singh , Admela Jukan , Mohit Chamania

This study proposes a hybrid deep-learning-metaheuristic framework with a bi-level architecture for road network design problems (NDPs). We train a graph neural network (GNN) to approximate the solution of the user equilibrium (UE) traffic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Bahman Madadi , Goncalo Homem de Almeida Correia