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A General Framework Based on Walsh Decomposition for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
(2021-01-01)In this paper we pursue the use of the Fourier transform for a general analysis of combinatorial optimization problems. While combinatorial optimization problems are defined by means of different notions like weights in a ... -
A mathematical analysis of EDAs with distance-based exponential models
(2022-09-01)Estimation of Distribution Algorithms have been successfully used to solve permutation-based Combinatorial Optimization Problems. In this case, the algorithms use probabilistic models specifically designed for codifying ... -
PyDDRBG: A Python framework for benchmarking and evaluating static and dynamic multimodal optimization methods
(2022-01-01)PyDDRBG is a Python framework for generating tunable test problems for static and dynamic multimodal optimization. It allows for quick and simple generation of a set of predefined problems for non-experienced users, as ... -
Preference incorporation into many-objective optimization: An Ant colony algorithm based on interval outranking
(2022-03-01)In this paper, we enriched Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) with interval outranking to develop a novel multi-objective ACO optimizer to approach problems with many objective functions. This proposal is suitable if the ... -
COARSE-EMOA: An indicator-based evolutionary algorithm for solving equality constrained multi-objective optimization problems
(2021-12-01)Many real-world applications involve dealing with several conflicting objectives which need to be optimized simultaneously. Moreover, these problems may require the consideration of limitations that restrict their decision ... -
Parallel Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms: A Comprehensive Survey
(2021-12-01)Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) are powerful search techniques that have been extensively used to solve difficult problems in a wide variety of disciplines. However, they can be very demanding in terms of ... -
A Novel Parametric benchmark generator for dynamic multimodal optimization
(2021-08-01)In most existing studies on dynamic multimodal optimization (DMMO), numerical simulations have been performed using the Moving Peaks Benchmark (MPB), which is a two-decade-old test suite that cannot simulate some critical ... -
On the Effect of the Cooperation of Indicator-Based Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms
(2021-08-01)For almost 20 years, quality indicators (QIs) have promoted the design of new selection mechanisms of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). Each indicator-based MOEA (IB-MOEA) has specific search preferences ... -
CURIE: a cellular automaton for concept drift detection
(2021-11-01)Data stream mining extracts information from large quantities of data flowing fast and continuously (data streams). They are usually affected by changes in the data distribution, giving rise to a phenomenon referred to as ... -
LUNAR: Cellular automata for drifting data streams
(2021-01-08)With the advent of fast data streams, real-time machine learning has become a challenging task, demanding many processing resources. In addition, they can be affected by the concept drift effect, by which learning methods ... -
AT-MFCGA: An Adaptive Transfer-guided Multifactorial Cellular Genetic Algorithm for Evolutionary Multitasking
(2021-09-01)Transfer Optimization is an incipient research area dedicated to solving multiple optimization tasks simultaneously. Among the different approaches that can address this problem effectively, Evolutionary Multitasking resorts ... -
Wireless Network Optimization for Massive V2I Data Collection using Multiobjective Harmony Search Heuristics
(2017)This paper proposes to improve the efficiency of the deploy- ment of wireless network infrastructure for massive data collection from vehicles over regional areas. The increase in the devices that are carried by vehicles ... -
Cost-efficient Selective Network Caching in Large-Area Vehicular Networks using Multi-objective Heuristics
(2017)In the last decade the interest around network caching tech- niques has augmented notably for alleviating the ever-growing demand of resources by end users in mobile networks. This gained momentum stems from the fact that ... -
On the Creation of Diverse Ensembles for Nonstationary Environments using Bio-inspired Heuristics
(2017)Recently the relevance of adaptive models for dynamic data environments has turned into a hot topic due to the vast number of sce- narios generating nonstationary data streams. When a change (concept drift) in data ... -
An Analysis of Coalition-Competition Pricing Strategies for Multi-Operator Mobile Traffic Offloading using Bi-objective Heuristics
(2017)In a competitive market relationships between telecommuni- cations operators serving simultaneously over a certain geographical area are diverse and motivated by very different business strategies and goals. Such relationships ... -
A Heuristically Optimized Complex Event Processing Engine for Big Data Stream Analytics
(2017)This paper describes a Big Data stream analytics platform developed within the DEWI project for processing upcoming events from wireless sensors installed in a truck. The platform consists of a Complex Event Processing ... -
Quantitative Analysis and Performance Study of Ant Colony Optimization Models Applied to Multi-Mode Resource Constraint Project Scheduling Problem
(2017)Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) belongs to this kind of traditional NP-hard problems with a high impact in both, research and industrial domains. However, due to the complexity that CSP problems exhibit, researchers ... -
A Novel Grouping Harmony Search Algorithm for Clustering Problems
(2017)The problem of partitioning a data set into disjoint groups or clusters of related items plays a key role in data analytics, in particular when the information retrieval becomes crucial for further data analysis. In this ... -
Joint Feature Selection and Parameter Tuning for Short-term Traffic Flow Forecasting based on Heuristically Optimized Multi-layer Neural Networks
(2017)Short-term traffic flow forecasting is a vibrant research topic that has been growing in interest since the late 70’s. In the last decade this vibrant field has shifted its focus towards machine learning methods. These ... -
A Feature Selection Method for Author Identification in Interactive Communications based on Supervised Learning and Language Typicality
(2016)Authorship attribution, conceived as the identification of the origin of a text be- tween different authors, has been a very active area of research in the scientific community mainly supported by advances in Natural ...