The rise of drones in internet of things: A survey on the evolution, prospects and challenges of unmanned aerial vehicles

NS Labib, MR Brust, G Danoy, P Bouvry - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent years have seen a rise in the incorporation and integration of new smart
connected devices and platforms such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to the …

Reevo: Large language models as hyper-heuristics with reflective evolution

H Ye, J Wang, Z Cao, F Berto, C Hua, H Kim… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The omnipresence of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) compels domain
experts to engage in trial-and-error heuristic design. The long-standing endeavor of design …

A study of ant-based pheromone spaces for generation constructive hyper-heuristics

E Singh, N Pillay - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2022 - Elsevier
Research into the applicability of ant-based optimisation techniques for hyper-heuristics is
largely limited. This paper expands upon the existing body of research by presenting a novel …

Understanding the importance of evolutionary search in automated heuristic design with large language models

R Zhang, F Liu, X Lin, Z Wang, Z Lu… - … Conference on Parallel …, 2024 - Springer
Automated heuristic design (AHD) has gained considerable attention for its potential to
automate the development of effective heuristics. The recent advent of large language …

[HTML][HTML] Surrogate model for memetic genetic programming with application to the one machine scheduling problem with time-varying capacity

FJ Gil-Gala, MR Sierra, C Mencía, R Varela - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Surrogate evaluation is a useful, if not the unique, technique in population-based
evolutionary algorithms where exact fitness calculation is too expensive. This situation …

Automated design of heuristics for the container relocation problem using genetic programming

M Đurasević, M Đumić - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
The container relocation problem is a challenging combinatorial optimisation problem
tasked with finding a sequence of container relocations required to retrieve all containers by …

Collaboration methods for ensembles of dispatching rules for the dynamic unrelated machines environment

M Đurasević, FJ Gil-Gala, L Planinić… - … applications of artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dynamic scheduling represents an important combinatorial optimisation problem that often
appears in the real world. The difficulty in solving these problems arises from their dynamic …

Combining single objective dispatching rules into multi-objective ensembles for the dynamic unrelated machines environment

M Đurasević, FJ Gil-Gala, D Jakobović… - Swarm and evolutionary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dispatching rules (DRs), which are simple constructive methods that incrementally build the
schedule, represent the most popular method for solving dynamic scheduling problems …

Evolving ensembles of heuristics for the travelling salesman problem

FJ Gil-Gala, M Durasević, MR Sierra, R Varela - Natural Computing, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well-known optimisation problem that
has been widely studied over the last century. As a result, a variety of exact and approximate …

Designing relocation rules with genetic programming for the container relocation problem with multiple bays and container groups

M Đurasević, M Đumić - Applied soft computing, 2024 - Elsevier
The container relocation problem (CRP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimisation problem
that arises in yard management. The problem is concerned with loading all containers from …