Learning Dominance Relations in Combined Search Problems

  • Authors:
  • Chee-Fen Yu;Benjamin W. Wah

  • Affiliations:
  • -;Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

Dominance relations are used to prune unnecessary nodes in search graphs, but they are problem-dependent and cannot be derived by a general procedure. The authors identify machine learning of dominance relations and the applicable learning mechanisms. A study of learning dominance relations using learning by experimentation is described. This system has been able to learn dominance relations for the 0/1-knapsack problem, an inventory problem the reliability-by-replication problem, the two-machine flow shop problem, a number of single-machine scheduling problems, and a two-machine scheduling problem. It is considered that the same methodology can be extended to learn dominance relations in general.