There is a growing interest towards self configuring/tuning automated general-purpose reusable heuristic approaches for combinatorial optimisation, such as, hyper-heuristics. Hyper-heuristics are search methodologies which explore the space of heuristics rather than the solutions to solve a broad range of hard computational problems without requiring any expert intervention. There are two commo...

to control the nonlinear numerical instability, throughout the time evolution of the eulerian form of the nonlinear rotating shallow water equations, it is necessary to add numerical diffusion to the solution. it is clear that, this extra numerical diffusion degrades the accuracy of the numerical solution and should be kept as small as possible. in a conventional approach a hyper-diffusion is u...

This paper investigates a tabu assisted genetic algorithm based hyper-heuristic (hyper-TGA) for personnel scheduling problems. We recently introduced a hyper-heuristic genetic algorithm (hyper-GA) with an adaptive length chromosome which aims to evolve an ordering of low-level heuristics in order to find good quality solutions to given problems. The addition of a tabu method, the focus of this ...

Meta-heuristics are algorithms which are applied to solve problems when conventional algorithms can not find good solutions in reasonable time; evolutionary algorithms are perhaps the most well-known examples of meta-heuristics. As there are many possible meta-heuristics, finding the most suitable meta-heuristic for a given problem is not a trivial task. In order to make this choice, one can de...

This paper studies Knowledge Discovery (KD) using Tabu Search and Hill Climbing within Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) as a hyper-heuristic method for course timetabling problems. The aim of the hyper-heuristic is to choose the best heuristic(s) for given timetabling problems according to the knowledge stored in the case base. KD in CBR is a 2-stage iterative process on both case representation and ...

we present some connections between the max-min general fuzzy automaton theory and the hyper structure theory. first, we introduce a hyper bck-algebra induced by a max-min general fuzzy automaton. then, we study the properties of this hyper bck-algebra. particularly, some theorems and results for hyper bck-algebra are proved. for example, it is shown that this structure consists of different ty...

Based on Maxwellian quaternionic electromagnetic theory, the octonionic hyper-strong field, hyper-weak field and the quantum interplays can be presented by analogy with octonionic electromagnetic, gravitational, strong and weak interactions. In the hyper-weak field, the study deduces some conclusions of field source particles and intermediate particles which are consistent with Dirac equation, ...