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Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization

14th European Conference, EvoCOP 2014, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Christian Blum

    1. Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain

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  2. Gabriela Ochoa

    1. School of Natural Sciences, Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8600)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, Evo COP 2014, held in Granada, Spain, in April 2014, co-located with the Evo*2014 events Euro GP, Evo BIO, Evo MUSART and Evo Applications.

The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: swarm intelligence algorithms, fitness landscapes and adaptive algorithms, real world and routing problems and cooperative and metaheuristic search.

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the Far From Most String Problem

    • Christian Blum, Paola Festa
    Pages 1-12

  3. A Parametric Framework for Cooperative Parallel Local Search

    • Danny Munera, Daniel Diaz, Salvador Abreu, Philippe Codognet
    Pages 13-24

  4. A Survey of Meta-heuristics Used for Computing Maximin Latin Hypercube

    • Arpad Rimmel, Fabien Teytaud
    Pages 25-36

  5. An Analysis of Parameters of irace

    • Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Thomas Stützle
    Pages 37-48

  6. An Improved Multi-objective Algorithm for the Urban Transit Routing Problem

    • Matthew P. John, Christine L. Mumford, Rhyd Lewis
    Pages 49-60

  7. An Iterated Greedy Heuristic for Simultaneous Lot-Sizing and Scheduling Problem in Production Flow Shop Environments

    • Harlem M. M. Villadiego, José Elías C. Arroyo, André Gustavo dos Santos
    Pages 61-72

  8. Balancing Bicycle Sharing Systems: An Approach for the Dynamic Case

    • Christian Kloimüllner, Petrina Papazek, Bin Hu, Günther R. Raidl
    Pages 73-84

  9. Cooperative Selection: Improving Tournament Selection via Altruism

    • Juan Luis Jiménez Laredo, Sune S. Nielsen, Grégoire Danoy, Pascal Bouvry, Carlos M. Fernandes
    Pages 85-96

  10. Diversity-Driven Selection of Multiple Crossover Operators for the Capacitated Arc Routing Problem

    • Pietro Consoli, Xin Yao
    Pages 97-108

  11. Dynamic Period Routing for a Complex Real-World System: A Case Study in Storm Drain Maintenance

    • Yujie Chen, Peter Cowling, Stephen Remde
    Pages 109-120

  12. Elementary Landscape Decomposition of the Hamiltonian Path Optimization Problem,

    • Darrell Whitley, Francisco Chicano
    Pages 121-132

  13. Gaussian Based Particle Swarm Optimisation and Statistical Clustering for Feature Selection

    • Mitchell C. Lane, Bing Xue, Ivy Liu, Mengjie Zhang
    Pages 133-144

  14. Global Optimization of Multimodal Deceptive Functions

    • David Iclănzan
    Pages 145-156

  15. Learning Inherent Networks from Stochastic Search Methods

    • David Iclănzan, Fabio Daolio, Marco Tomassini
    Pages 157-169

  16. Metaheuristics for the Pick-Up and Delivery Problem with Contracted Orders

    • Philip Mourdjis, Peter Cowling, Martin Robinson
    Pages 170-181

  17. Modeling an Artificial Bee Colony with Inspector for Clustering Tasks

    • Cosimo Birtolo, Giovanni Capasso, Davide Ronca, Gennaro Sorrentino
    Pages 182-193

  18. Personalized Multi-day Trips to Touristic Regions: A Hybrid GA-VND Approach

    • Ali Divsalar, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Masoud Chitsaz, Kenneth Sörensen, Dirk Cattrysse
    Pages 194-205

  19. Phase Transition and Landscape Properties of the Number Partitioning Problem

    • Khulood Alyahya, Jonathan E. Rowe
    Pages 206-217

  20. The Firefighter Problem: Application of Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms

    • Christian Blum, Maria J. Blesa, Carlos García-Martínez, Francisco J. Rodríguez, Manuel Lozano
    Pages 218-229
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain

    Christian Blum

  • School of Natural Sciences, Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK

    Gabriela Ochoa

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