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Recent Papers
| Understanding Algorithm Performance on an Oversubscribed Scheduling Application
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Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 27, pages 577-615,
L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, L.D. Whitley, and M. Roberts. |
| Deconstructing Nowicki and Smutnicki's i-TSAB Tabu Search Algorithm
for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem
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in Journal of Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 33, No. 9, pp 2623-2644, September 2006
J.P. Watson, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley. |
| Looking for Shortcuts: Infeasible Search Analysis for Oversubscribed Scheduling Problems
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International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-06)
M.F. Rogers, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley. |
| Exploiting Portfolio Strategy to Explore the Interaction of Problems and Algorithms in AI Planning
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International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-06) Doctoral Consortium
M. Roberts. |
| Directing a Portfolio with Learning
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AAAI 2006 Workshop on Learning for Search
M. Roberts and A.E. Howe. |
| Spacetrack: Trading off Quality and Utilization in Oversubscribed Schedules
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International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-06)
A.M. Sutton, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley. |
| PSO and Multifunnel Landscapes: How cooperation might limit exploration
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Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-06)
A.M. Sutton, L.D. Whitley, A.E. Howe, and M. Lunacek. |
| AFSCN Scheduling: How the Problem and Solution Have Evolved
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to appear in Mathematical and Computer Modelling
L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley. |
| Linking Search Space Structure, Run-time Dynamics and
Problem Difficulty: A Step Toward Demystifying Tabu Search
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in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, August 2005
J.P. Watson, L.D. Whitley, and A.E. Howe. |
| Random Walks and Neighborhood Bias in
Oversubscribed Scheduling
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Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling (MISTA-05), July 2005
M. Roberts, L.D. Whitley, A.E. Howe, and L. Barbelescu. |
| Modeling Local Search: A First Step Toward Understanding
Hill-climbing Search in Oversubscribed Scheduling
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International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-05), June 2005
M. Roberts, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley. |
| Properties of Gray and Binary Representations
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in Evolutionary Computation, 2004
J. Rowe, D. Whitley, L. Barbulescu and J.P. Watson. |
Search Space Analysis Papers
| A Dynamic Model of Tabu Search for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem
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Best Paper Award
Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling, August 2003
J.P. Watson, L.D. Whitley and A.E. Howe. |
| Problem Difficulty for Tabu Search in Job-Shop Scheduling
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in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 143, No. 2, pp. 189-217, February 2003
J.P. Watson, J.C. Beck, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley. |
| An Analysis of Iterated Local Search for Job-Shop Scheduling
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in Proceedings of the Fifth Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC-2003), September 2003
J.P. Watson, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley. |
| Adaptive Search Algorithms and Fitness-Distance Correlation
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in Proceedings of the Fifth Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC-2003), September 2003
J.C. Beck, J.P. Watson. |
| A Critical Assessment of Benchmark Comparison in Planning
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in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 17, pp. 1-33, July 2002
A.E. Howe and E. Dahlman. |
| Contrasting Structured and Random Permutation Flow-Shop Scheduling Problems: Search Space Topology and Algorithm Performance
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in INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2002
J.P. Watson, L. Barbulescu, L.D. Whitley, and A.E. Howe. |
| An Overview of Evolutionary Algorithms
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in Journal of Information and Software Technology, Vol. 43, pp. 817-831, 2001
L.D. Whitley. |
| Toward an Understanding of Local Search Cost in Job-Shop Scheduling
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in Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Planning (ECP '01), Toledo, Spain, September 2001
J.P. Watson, J.C. Beck, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley. |
| Toward a Descriptive Model Of Local Search Cost in Job-Shop Scheduling
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in Working Notes of IJCAI-01 Workshop on Stochastic Search Algorithms, Seattle, WA, August 2001
J.P. Watson, J.C. Beck, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley. |
| Focusing on the Individual - Why We Need New Methods for Characterizing Problem Difficulty
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in Working Notes of ECAI 2000 Workshop on Empirical Methods in Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, Germany, August 2000
J.P. Watson, A.E. Howe. |
| Algorithm Performance and Problem Structure for Flow-shop Scheduling
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in Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), 1999
J.P. Watson, L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley. |
| The Impact of Approximate Evaluation on the Performance of Search Algorithms for Warehouse Scheduling
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In Journal of Scheduling , 1999
J.P. Watson, S. Rana, L. D. Whitley and A.E. Howe. |
| Comparing Heuristic Search Methods and Genetic Algorithms for Warehouse Scheduling
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In Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1998
L.D. Whitley, A.E. Howe, S. Rana, J.P. Watson, L. Barbulescu. |
| A Free Lunch Proof for Gray versus Binary Encodings
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in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99) , 1999
L. D. Whitley. |
| A Tractible Walsh Analysis of SAT and it Implications for Genetic Algorithms
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Nominated for Outstanding Paper Award
in Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), 1998
S. Rana, R. Heckendorn, D. Whitley. |
| Polynomial time summary statistics for a generalization of MAXSAT
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in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99) , 1999
R. Heckendorn, S. Rana, D. Whitley. |
Satellite Scheduling Papers
| Leap Before You Look: An Effective Strategy in an Oversubscribed Problem
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In Proceedings of Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04)
L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, and L.D. Whitley |
| Trading Places: How to Schedule More in a Multi-Resource Oversubscribed Scheduling Problem
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Runner Up for Best Student Paper Award
accepted to International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-04)
L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, L.D. Whitley, and M. Roberts. |
| Scheduling Space-Ground Communications for the Air Force Satellite Control Network
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in Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 7-34, January 2004
L. Barbulescu, J.P. Watson, L.D. Whitley, and A.E. Howe. |
| Satellite Range Scheduling: A Comparison of Genetic, Heuristic and Local Search
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in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSNVII), Granada Spain, September 2002
L. Barbulescu, A.E. Howe, J.P. Watson, and L.D. Whitley. |
| Mixed Initiative Scheduling for the Air Force Satellite Control Network
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in Second International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space, March 2000
A.E. Howe, L.D. Whitley, L. Barbulescu, and J.P. Watson. |
| A Study of Air Force Satellite Access Scheduling
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in Proceedings of the World Automation Conference, Maui, HI, June 2000
A.E. Howe, L.D. Whitley, J.P. Watson, and L. Barbulescu. |
Other
| Testing, Evaluation and Performance of Optimization and Learning Systems
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Keynote Address: Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacturing, 2002
L.D. Whitley, J.P. Watson, A.E. Howe, and L. Barbulescu. |
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