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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis - Special issue: Computational econometrics

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Systems Analysis Modelling Simulation

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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

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An efficient method for determining bilingual word classes

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Hybrid heuristics for planning lot setups and sizes

Computers and Industrial Engineering

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Computers and Operations Research

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Advances in Engineering Software - Special issue on evolutionary optimization of engineering problems

Global and Local Search Algorithms for Concave Cost Transshipment Problems

Journal of Global Optimization

Noising methods for a clique partitioning problem

Discrete Applied Mathematics - Special issue: IV ALIO/EURO workshop on applied combinatorial optimization

Single-point stochastic search algorithms for the multi-level lot-sizing problem

Computers and Operations Research

Applying model reference adaptive search to American-style option pricing

Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

Simulation based scheduling system in a semiconductor backend facility

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Computational approaches to a combinatorial optimization problem arising from text classification

Computers and Operations Research

An efficient variable neighborhood search heuristic for very large scale vehicle routing problems

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A hybrid scatter search for the probabilistic traveling salesman problem

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Operations Research

Analyzing the performance of simultaneous generalized hill climbing algorithms

Computational Optimization and Applications

A TABU search heuristic for the team orienteering problem

Computers and Operations Research

Simultaneous Generalized Hill-Climbing Algorithms for Addressing Sets of Discrete Optimization Problems

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Improving simulated annealing with variable neighborhood search to solve the resource-constrained scheduling problem

Journal of Scheduling

Inventory budget optimization: meeting system-wide service levels in practice

IBM Journal of Research and Development - Business optimization

Software reliability prediction by soft computing techniques

Journal of Systems and Software

A metaheuristic approach for the sequencing by hybridization problem with positive and negative errors

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Design of reinforced concrete bridge frames by heuristic optimization

Advances in Engineering Software

Threshold selecting: best possible probability distribution for crossover selection in genetic algorithms

Proceedings of the 10th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Threshold accepting trained principal component neural network and feature subset selection: Application to bankruptcy prediction in banks

Applied Soft Computing

A variable neighborhood search for the capacitated arc routing problem with intermediate facilities

Journal of Heuristics

Software development cost estimation using wavelet neural networks

Journal of Systems and Software

An Extended Implementation of the Great Deluge Algorithm for Course Timetabling

ICCS '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Science, Part I: ICCS 2007

An hybrid simulated annealing threshold accepting algorithm for satisfiability problems using dynamically cooling schemes

WSEAS Transactions on Computers

Local search: A guide for the information retrieval practitioner

Information Processing and Management: an International Journal

A Vector Assignment Approach for the Graph Coloring Problem

Learning and Intelligent Optimization

A well-scalable metaheuristic for the fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem with time windows

Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal

Differential evolution trained wavelet neural networks: Application to bankruptcy prediction in banks

Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal

Multi-criteria Curriculum-Based Course Timetabling--A Comparison of a Weighted Sum and a Reference Point Based Approach

EMO '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization

Threshold configuration and routing optimization for PCN-based resilient admission control

Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking

A hybrid evolution strategy for the open vehicle routing problem

Computers and Operations Research

Optimal aggregation of linear time series models

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis

Arc-guided evolutionary algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with time windows

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Fifty Years of Vehicle Routing

Transportation Science

New spatial measure for dispersed-dot halftoning assuring good point distribution in any density

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Using a Simulated Annealing to Enhance Learning in Adjustment Processes

Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence

A simulation model for capacity planning in sugarcane transport

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Using a Simulated Annealing to Enhance Learning in Adjustment Processes

Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence

Noising methods for a clique partitioning problem

Discrete Applied Mathematics - Special issue: IV ALIO/EURO workshop on applied combinatorial optimization

Improved route planning and scheduling of waste collection and transport

Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal

Heuristic optimization of RC bridge piers with rectangular hollow sections

Computers and Structures

The traveling salesman: computational solutions for TSP applications

The traveling salesman: computational solutions for TSP applications

Optimized U-type designs on flexible regions

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis

Robust IP link costs for multilayer resilience

NETWORKING'07 Proceedings of the 6th international IFIP-TC6 conference on Ad Hoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet

Compiler assisted elliptic curve cryptography

OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS - Volume Part II

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Computers and Operations Research

Distributed optimisation of a portfolio's Omega

Parallel Computing

Compact explosion diagrams

NPAR '10 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering

Differential evolution and threshold accepting hybrid algorithm for unconstrained optimisation

International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation

Threshold accepting framework for discrete and continuous search spaces

International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications

Optimization heuristics for determining internal rating grading scales

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis

Design of prestressed concrete precast pedestrian bridges by heuristic optimization

Advances in Engineering Software

A tabu search algorithm for the heterogeneous fixed fleet vehicle routing problem

Computers and Operations Research

Further improvements in the calculation of Censored Quantile Regressions

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Simulated annealing techniques

Algorithms and theory of computation handbook

Vertical fragmentation design of distributed databases considering the nonlinear nature of roundtrip response time

KES'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems: Part II

Numerical approach to Lyapunov's stability analysis of nonlinear systems using threshold accepting algorithms

CSS'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Circuits, systems and signals

Extended papers from NPAR 2010: Multi-perspective compact explosion diagrams

Computers and Graphics

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Design of reinforced concrete road vaults by heuristic optimization

Advances in Engineering Software

A hybrid simulated annealing and threshold accepting for for satisfiability problems using dynamically cooling schemes

CIMMACS'07 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS international conference on Computational intelligence, man-machine systems and cybernetics

Graph k-colorability through threshold accepting and Davis-Putnam

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A structural approach to the temporal modeling of networks

Winter Simulation Conference

Generic topology mapping strategies for large-scale parallel architectures

Proceedings of the international conference on Supercomputing

A survey of methods for constructing covering arrays

Programming and Computing Software

Controlling the tradeoff between time and quality by considering the reproductive potential of offspring

Proceedings of the 13th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Data-driven grasping

Autonomous Robots

A framework for analyzing sub-optimal performance of local search algorithms

Computational Optimization and Applications

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Journal of Heuristics

Constraint multiproduct joint-replenishment inventory control problem using uncertain programming

Applied Soft Computing

Multiproduct multiple-buyer single-vendor supply chain problem with stochastic demand, variable lead-time, and multi-chance constraint

Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal

Solving SAT problems with TA algorithms using constant and dynamic markov chains length

AAIM'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Algorithmic Applications in Management

Evolution strategies and threshold selection

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On the automatic construction of indistinguishable operations

IMA'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Cryptography and Coding

A modified harmony search threshold accepting hybrid optimization algorithm

MIWAI'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Multi-Disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence

Metaheuristic approaches to grouping problems in high-throughput cryopreservation operations for fish sperm

Applied Soft Computing

Heuristic algorithms for unrelated parallel machine scheduling with a common due date, release dates, and linear earliness and tardiness penalties

Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal

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Discrete Optimization

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Two hybrid differential evolution algorithms for optimal inbound and outbound truck sequencing in cross docking operations

Applied Soft Computing

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PaCT'07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Parallel Computing Technologies

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Integrated planning of loaded and empty container movements

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Heuristics for hub location problems with alternative capacity levels and allocation constraints

ICIC'13 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent Computing Theories

The robust joint solution for channel assignment and routing for wireless mesh networks with time partitioning

Ad Hoc Networks

Discrete particle swarm optimization for constructing uniform design on irregular regions

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis

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