Easily Searched Encodings for Number Partitioning

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 251-291

  Ruml, W ^a   Ngo, J T ^b   Marks, J ^c   Shieber, S M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Interval Research Corporation   (United States)

^c MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DETERMINISTIC HEURISTICS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EMPIRICAL TEST; ENCODINGS; NUMBER PARTITIONING; PROBABILITY: DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM INSTANCES; PROBLEM REPRESENTATION; STOCHASTIC SEARCH ALGORITHMS; STOCHASTICS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 0000997555     PISSN: 00223239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02192530     Document Type: Article

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