A. Sima Uyar

Neil Urquhart

Ender Ozcan

Solving scheduling problems has long presented a challenge for computer scientists and operations researchers. The field continues to expand as researchers and practitioners examine ever more challenging problems and develop automated methods capable of solving them. This book provides 11 case studies in automated scheduling, submitted by leading researchers from across the world. Each case study examines a challenging real-world problem by analysing the problem in detail before investigating how the problem may be solved using state of the art techniques.The areas covered include aircraft scheduling, microprocessor instruction scheduling, sports fixture scheduling, exam scheduling, personnel scheduling and production scheduling. Problem solving methodologies covered include exact as well as (meta)heuristic approaches, such as local search techniques, linear programming, genetic algorithms and ant colony optimisation.The field of automated scheduling has the potential to impact many aspects of our lives and work; this book highlights contributions to the field by world class researchers.

From Theory to Practice

Automated Scheduling and Planning

Aniko Ekart

Anna Isabel Esparcia-Alcazar

Sara Silva

Stephen Dignum

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2010, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in April 2010 co-located with the Evo* 2010 events. This 28 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The wide range of topics in this volume reflect the current state of research in the field, including representations, theory, operators and analysis, novel models, performance enhancements, extensions of genetic programming, and various applications.

13th European Conference, EuroGP 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2010, Proceedings

Genetic Programming

Shengxiang Yang

Franz Rothlauf

Michael O'Neill

Evelyne Lutton

Penousal Machado

Rolf Drechsler

Juan Romero

Giovanni Squillero

Mario Giacobini

Gianni A. Di Caro

Andreas Fink

Anthony Brabazon

Stefano Cagoni

Muddassar Farooq

Stefan Minner

Hideyuki Takagi

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of seven workshops on evolutionary computing, EvoWorkshops 2007, held in Valencia, Spain in April 2007. It examines evolutionary computation in communications, networks, and connected systems; finance and economics; image analysis and signal processing; and transportation and logistics. Coverage also details evolutionary algorithms in stochastic and dynamic environments.

EvoWorkshops 2007:EvoCOMNET, EvoFIN, EvoIASP, EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoSTOC, and EvoTransLog, Valencia, Spain, April 11-13, 2007, Proceedings

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