Antonio Bolufé-Röhler

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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...

11 November 2016 3,051 4 View

(Meta)Heuristic Algorithms as tools in Cryptography?

I´m looking for examples of heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms applied to cryptographic problems.

07 July 2016 3,121 1 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?

08 August 2015 6,259 3 View

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

Are there mathematical proofs of convergence for metaheuristic algorithms? I’m especially interested on real-parameter metaheuristics (e.g. PSO, DE or ES).

02 February 2015 5,632 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...

09 September 2014 2,688 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...

06 June 2014 4,115 29 View

Which are the best measures for comparing heuristic algorithms?

05 May 2014 4,202 5 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...

05 May 2014 5,700 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...

02 February 2014 1,799 4 View

Which benchmarks would you recommend for multi-objective optimization?

I’m looking for frequently used multi-objective optimization benchmarks, preferably for continuous domains. Do you have any suggestions?

01 January 2014 5,118 3 View

What is the difference between "exploration" vs. "exploitation", "intensification" vs. "diversification" and "global search" vs. "local search"?

Although different, these terms are indistinguishably used in many works. What are their similarities and differences? On which cases should each of them be used?

12 December 2013 5,091 32 View