An immunological approach to combinatorial optimization problems

V Cutello, G Nicosia - Advances in Artificial Intelligence—IBERAMIA 2002 …, 2002 - Springer
In this work we use a simplified model of the immune system to explore the problem solving
feature. We consider only two immunological entities, antigens and antibodies, two …

A clonal selection algorithm for coloring, hitting set and satisfiability problems

V Cutello, G Nicosia - Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, 2005 - Springer
In this keynote paper we present an Immune Algorithm based on the Clonal Selection
Principle to explore the combinatorial optimization capability. We consider only two …

An ant-algorithm for the weighted minimum hitting set problem

A Cincotti, V Cutello… - Proceedings of the 2003 …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ant-algorithm for the weighted minimum hitting set problem Page 1 An Ant-Algorithm for the
Weighted Minimum Hitting Set Problem A. Cincotti, V. Cutello, F. Pappalardo Department of …

Scalability Oriented Consensus Group Selection Based on Transmission Delay between Nodes in Sharding Blockchains

L Tao, Y Lu, Y Fan, Z Wei - Available at SSRN 4594429 - papers.ssrn.com
Sharding brings a promising prospect for the scalability of blockchain. Nevertheless, the
small number of consensus nodes and the traditional fixed consensus nodes in each shard …

The Hitting set problem and Evolutionary Algorithmic Techniques with ad-hoc Viruses (HEAT-V)

V Cutello, F Pappalardo - … Computation Conference Chicago, IL, USA, July …, 2003 - Springer
Abstract The Weighted Minimum Hitting Set Problem (WMHSP) and the standard Minimum
Hitting Set Problem (MHSP), are combinatorial problems of great interest for many …

Using viruses to improve GAs

F Pappalardo - Advances in Natural Computation: First International …, 2005 - Springer
In this paper, we will introduce an evolutionary algorithm for finding approximate solutions to
the Weighted Minimum Hitting Set Problem. The proposed genetic algorithm, denoted by …