Questions tagged [experimental-optimization]
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Prospective study and ascertainment of the exposure during the follow-up period [closed]
I'm reading several prospective studies published in top journals where a baseline modifiable exposure was associated with a final outcome.
Just as an example might be this study.
The Authors aimed to ...
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Algorithm for Trainyard Marshall optimization problem
The problem I am trying to solve is the 2014 RAS problem. The link is the following
The problem
Trains come to the humpyard where each compartment of a train gets humped or disassembled and then each ...
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Run repeatable numerical tests in the cloud
In numerical tests of optimization algorithms, one often reads "We used a XY computer with X GB RAM for the experiments".
Usually, when I want to compare my results with theirs, I do not have an XY ...
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The curse of the benchmark instances
Many problem areas (like vehicle routing, hub location, ...) have certain "classic" benchmark instances that are used heavily in the literature to compare the numerical strength of optimisation ...
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