HORNG, SHIH-CHENG; LIN, SHIN-YEU - In: International Journal of Information Technology & … 12 (2013) 02, pp. 233-260
In this paper, we combine evolution strategy (ES) with ordinal optimization (OO), abbreviated as ES + OO, to solve real-time combinatorial stochastic simulation optimization problems with huge discrete solution space. The first step of ES + OO is to use an artificial neural network (ANN) to...