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In this article, a multi–armed bandit problem is studied in an explore–then–commit setting where the cost of pulling arm experimentation (exploration) phase may not be negligible. Identifying best after pure to exploit it once or for given finite number times goal problem. Applications are prevalent personalized health-care and financial investments frequency exploitation limited. setting, we o...

In this paper, an efficient multi-objective model is proposed to solve time-cost trade off problem considering cash flows. The proposed multi-objective meta-heuristic is based on Ant colony optimization and is called Non Dominated Archiving Ant Colony Optimization (NAACO). The significant feature of this work is consideration of uncertainties in time, cost and more importantly interest rate. A ...