no code implementations • 11 Jan 2022 • Yangming Zhou, Jin-Kao Hao, Zhen Li, Fred Glover
Rank aggregation aims to combine the preference rankings of a number of alternatives from different voters into a single consensus ranking.
no code implementations • 12 Oct 2020 • Fred Glover
A variety of strategies have been proposed for overcoming local optimality in metaheuristic search.
no code implementations • 9 Feb 2020 • Fred Glover, Said Hanafi, Gintaras Palubeckis
This paper addresses a generalization called quasi-clustering that allows overlapping of clusters, and which we link to biclustering.
1 code implementation • 27 May 2017 • Mark Lewis, Fred Glover
The Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization problem (QUBO) has become a unifying model for representing a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems, and for linking a variety of disciplines that face these problems.
no code implementations • 26 May 2017 • Fred Glover, Mark Lewis, Gary Kochenberger
The quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem arises in diverse optimization applications ranging from Ising spin problems to classical problems in graph theory and binary discrete optimization.
no code implementations • 11 May 2017 • Yangming Zhou, Jin-Kao Hao, Fred Glover
In this paper, we study the classic critical node problem (CNP) and introduce an effective memetic algorithm for solving CNP.
no code implementations • 4 Apr 2017 • Kenneth Sorensen, Marc Sevaux, Fred Glover
This chapter describes the history of metaheuristics in five distinct periods, starting long before the first use of the term and ending a long time in the future.
no code implementations • 23 Mar 2017 • Fred Glover, Jin-Kao Hao
Diversification-Based Learning (DBL) derives from a collection of principles and methods introduced in the field of metaheuristics that have broad applications in computing and optimization.
no code implementations • 30 Jan 2017 • Fred Glover
We introduce new diversification methods for zero-one optimization that significantly extend strategies previously introduced in the setting of metaheuristic search.
no code implementations • 24 May 2013 • Fred Glover, Tao Ye, Abraham P. Punnen, Gary Kochenberger
The bipartite boolean quadratic programming problem (BBQP) is a generalization of the well studied boolean quadratic programming problem.