Blum, Christian

Recent Publications

Learning to Select Promising Initial Solutions for Large Neighborhood Search-Based Multi-Agent Path Finding
Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2024 (Quesada-Arencibia, Alexis and Affenzeller, Michael and Moreno-Díaz, Roberto), volume 15172 of LNCS, pages 236-250, 2025, Springer.
A Neural Network Based Guidance for a BRKGA: An Application to the Longest Common Square Subsequence Problem
Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization – 23rd European Conference, EvoCOP 2024 (T. Stützle and M. Wagner), volume 14632 of LNCS, pages 1-15, 2024, Springer.
Note: best paper award winner
A Beam Search for the Longest Common Subsequence Problem Guided by a Novel Approximate Expected Length Calculation
Proceedings of LOD 2019 – The 5th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science (Nicosia, Giuseppe and Pardalos, Panos and Giuffrida, Giovanni and Umeton, Renato and Sciacca, Vincenzo), volume 11943 of LNCS, pages 154-167, 2020, Springer.
On the Use of Decision Diagrams for Finding Repetition-Free Longest Common Subsequences
Proceedings of OPTIMA 2020 – XI International Conference Optimization and Applications (Olenev, Nicholas and Evtushenko, Yuri and Khachay, Michael and Malkova, Vlasta), volume 12422 of LNCS, pages 134-149, 2020, Springer.
A Biased Random Key Genetic Algorithm with Rollout Evaluations for the Resource Constraint Job Scheduling Problem
Proceedings of AI 2019: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Liu, Jixue and Bailey, James), volume 11919 of LNCS, pages 549-560, 2019, Springer.
A Heuristic Approach for Solving the Longest Common Square Subsequence Problem
Proceedings of EUROCAST 2019 – 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (Moreno-Díaz, Roberto and Pichler, Franz and Quesada-Arencibia, Alexis), volume 12013 of LNCS, pages 429-437, 2019, Springer.