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Explicit and Emergent Cooperation Schemes for Search Algorithms

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Cooperation as problem-solving and algorithm-design strategy is widely used to build methods addressing complex discrete optimization problems. In most cooperative-search algorithms, the explicit cooperation scheme yields a dynamic process not deliberately controlled by the algorithm design but inflecting the global behaviour of the cooperative solution strategy. The paper presents an overview of explicit cooperation mechanisms and describes issues related to the associated dynamic processes and the emergent computation they often generate. It also identifies a number of research directions into cooperation mechanisms, strategies for dynamic learning, automatic guidance, and self-adjustment, and the associated emergent computation processes.

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  1. CIRRELT, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Teodor Gabriel Crainic & Michel Toulouse

  2. Department of Management and Technology, ESG UQAM, C.P. 8888, succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3C 3P8

    Teodor Gabriel Crainic

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  1. Dept. Computer Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Vittorio Maniezzo

  2. Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy

    Roberto Battiti

  3. Discrete Math and Complex Systems Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

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Crainic, T.G., Toulouse, M. (2008). Explicit and Emergent Cooperation Schemes for Search Algorithms. In: Maniezzo, V., Battiti, R., Watson, JP. (eds) Learning and Intelligent Optimization. LION 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5313. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92695-5_8

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