Have machine learning techniques been used to guide heuristic search?

(Meta)Heuristic search algorithms gather a lot of sampling information as the search process proceeds. Can this information be used by machine learning algorithms to guide the search? For...

10 November 2016 2,998 4 View

Which textbook would you recommend for lecturing a course in Artificial Intelligence?

Which textbook would you recommend for lecturing a course in Artificial Intelligence?And which topics do you consider more relevant?

07 August 2015 6,206 3 View

How to proof the convergence (properties) of a metaheuristic algorithm?

01 February 2015 5,522 11 View

Which measures are used to compare the performance of Multi-objective optimization (MOO) algorithms?

In MOO the aim of optimization algorithms is finding a set of (good) solution (well) distributed along the (optimal) Pareto Front. There is a trade-of between the quality of the found solutions...

08 September 2014 2,629 7 View

Which are the best derivative-free methods for unimodal optimization?

Which algorithms would you recommend for optimizing a real-valued unconstrained unimodal function? Consider that the objective function could be non-separable, ill-conditioned and high...

05 June 2014 4,055 29 View

What are the differences between niching, crowding and sharing?

In multi-modal and multi-objective evolutionary optimization, it is very important maintain a diversified population. Niching, crowding and sharing techniques are among the most popular. Which are...

04 May 2014 5,623 5 View

Which are the best measures for comparing heuristic algorithms?

Which are the best measures for comparing heuristic algorithms?

04 May 2014 4,147 5 View

How do non-Euclidean search spaces affect global optimizers?

Some optimization problems, such as Molecular Docking which includes 1D and 3D rotations, have non-Euclidean search spaces. Does this influence or bias the results and search behavior of global...

17 February 2014 9,846 3 View

How do non-Euclidean search spaces affect global optimizers?

Some optimization problems, such as Molecular Docking which includes 1D and 3D rotations, have non-Euclidean search spaces. Does this influence or bias the results and search behavior of global...

01 February 2014 1,744 4 View

Which benchmarks would you recommend for multi-objective optimization?

31 December 2013 5,058 3 View

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 View

What degree of missing data in a particular case/participant results in Expectation-Maximisation no longer working?

I'm dealing with a mediation model and am using the PROCESS module in SPSS. Due to SPSS and PROCESS being limited in the imputation methods - being unable to handle multiple imputation - the other...

02 March 2021 4,362 1 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

Can NFL theorem be valid in infinite search space in ML?

NFL theorem is valid for algorithms training in fixed training set. However, the general characteristic of algorithms in expanded or open dataset has not been proved yet. Could you show your...

01 March 2021 1,189 3 View

How to eliminate Steady state error from Reinforcement learning genetic algorithm code?

The following code (see 1st 2 images attached) is used to produce PID controller values that are designed to control the system (G). The code finds the PID controller values (noted as k) by using...

28 February 2021 6,560 14 View

High aspect ratio hexahedral mesh optimization solver?

I am interested in evaluating mesh optimization solvers that converge to high aspect ratio unstructured hexahedral grids. In other words, I am interested in a solver that optimizes warpage,...

26 February 2021 7,279 2 View

Centrality measures computation in Biblioshiny/ Vosviewer?

26 February 2021 7,279 2 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View

How could I process data in RCT to include it in meta-analysis?

I'm in the process of doing a meta-analysis and have encountered some problems with the RCT data. One of my outcom is muscle strength. In one study, I have three different measurements of muscle...

25 February 2021 7,603 3 View

How do you mesh a thin solid in Fluent?

Hello, I have used the shell function on SpaceClaim to create thin solids for the model I am studying. These are contained within an enclosure for my study. I chose this approach as it avoids the...

24 February 2021 8,856 3 View