Modern meta-heuristics based on nonlinear physics processes: A review of models and design procedures

S Salcedo-Sanz - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Meta-heuristic algorithms are problem-solving methods which try to find good-enough
solutions to very hard optimization problems, at a reasonable computation time, where …

[BOOK][B] Analysis of boolean functions

R O'Donnell - 2014 - books.google.com
Boolean functions are perhaps the most basic objects of study in theoretical computer
science. They also arise in other areas of mathematics, including combinatorics, statistical …

[BOOK][B] Handbook of constraint programming

F Rossi, P Van Beek, T Walsh - 2006 - books.google.com
Constraint programming is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial search problems
that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science …

[BOOK][B] Handbook of approximation algorithms and metaheuristics

TF Gonzalez - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
Delineating the tremendous growth in this area, the Handbook of Approximation Algorithms
and Metaheuristics covers fundamental, theoretical topics as well as advanced, practical …

[PDF][PDF] The valorization of surveillance: Towards a political economy of Facebook

NS Cohen - Democratic Communiqué, 2008 - openpublishing.library.umass.edu
Much excitement surrounds Facebook, the social networking site based on user-generated
content that has attracted 64 million active users since its inception in 2004. This paper …

The coral reefs optimization algorithm: a novel metaheuristic for efficiently solving optimization problems

S Salcedo-Sanz, J Del Ser… - The Scientific World …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a novel bioinspired algorithm to tackle complex optimization problems:
the coral reefs optimization (CRO) algorithm. The CRO algorithm artificially simulates a coral …

Parameterized complexity and approximation algorithms

D Marx - The Computer Journal, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximation algorithms and parameterized complexity are usually considered to be two
separate ways of dealing with hard algorithmic problems. In this paper, our aim is to …

Polylogarithmic inapproximability

E Halperin, R Krauthgamer - Proceedings of the thirty-fifth annual ACM …, 2003 - dl.acm.org
We provide the first hardness result of a polylogarithmic approximation ratio for a natural NP-
hard optimization problem. We show that for every fixed ε> 0, the GROUP-STEINER-TREE …

Energy minimization via graph cuts: Settling what is possible

D Freedman, P Drineas - 2005 IEEE Computer Society …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent explosion of interest in graph cut methods in computer vision naturally spawns
the question: what energy functions can be minimized via graph cuts? This question was first …

O (√ log n) approximation algorithms for Min UnCut, Min 2CNF Deletion, and directed cut problems

A Agarwal, M Charikar, K Makarychev… - Proceedings of the thirty …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
We give O (√ log n)-approximation algorithms for the MIN UNCUT, MIN 2CNF DELETION,
DIRECTED BALANCED SEPERATOR, and DIRECTED SPARSEST CUT problems. The …