Metaheuristic Development
My research has lead to the development of new metaheuristics, including Value-Biased Stochastic Sampling (VBSS), and Wasp Behavior Inspired Stochastic Sampling (WHISTLING).
Selected Publications
- Enhancing Stochastic Search Performance by Value-Biased Randomization of Heuristics.
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith.
Journal of Heuristics, 11(1): 5-34, January 2005. doi:10.1007/s10732-005-6997-8
[PDF] [BIB] [DOI] - Boosting Stochastic Problem Solvers Through Online Self-Analysis of Performance.
Vincent A. Cicirello.
PhD thesis, The Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2003.
[PDF] [BIB] - Amplification of Search Performance through Randomization of Heuristics.
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith.
In Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2002: 8th International Conference, Proceedings, volume LNCS 2470 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 124-138. Springer-Verlag, September 2002. doi:10.1007/3-540-46135-3_9
[PDF] [BIB] [DOI] - WHISTLING: Wasp Behavior Inspired Stochastic Sampling.
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith.
In The 2002 SIAM Annual Meeting and SIAM 50th Anniversary, Final Program and Abstracts, pages 228. SIAM, July 2002.
[PDF] [BIB] - Randomizing Dispatch Scheduling Policies.
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith.
In Using Uncertainty Within Computation: Papers from the 2001 AAAI Fall Symposium, pages 30-37. AAAI Press, November 2001.
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