In this paper we compare the performance of the Differential Evolution (DE) and the Repulsive Particle Swarm (RPS) methods of global optimization. To this end, seventy test functions have been chosen. Among these test functions, some are new while others are well known in the literature; some are...

This paper presents and compares three heuristics for the combinatorial auctionproblem. Besides a simple greedy (SG) mechanism, two metaheuristics, a simulatedannealing (SA), and a genetic algorithm (GA) approach are developedwhich use the combinatorial auction process to an allocation with...

We model the decision making process used by experts at the Canadian Innovation Centre to classify early stage venture proposals based on potential commercial success. The decision is based on thirty seven attributes that take values in (-1; 0; 1). We adopt a conjunctive decision framework due to...