Christian Blum

Recent Publications

An A* Search Algorithm for the Constrained Longest Common Subsequence Problem
Information Processing Letters, volume 166, number 106041, 2020.
Note: previous technical report version at r̆lhttps://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/files/tr/ac-tr-20-004.pdf
On Solving a Generalized Constrained Longest Common Subsequence Problem
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 55-79, 2020, Springer.
Solving Longest Common Subsequence Problems via a Transformation to the Maximum Clique Problem
Computers & Operations Research, volume 125, number 105089, 2020.
Note: previous technical report version at r̆lhttps://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/files/tr/ac-tr-20-003.pdf
A Heuristic Approach for Solving the Longest Common Square Subsequence Problem
Extended Abstracts of the Seventeenth International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EUROCAST 2019), 2019.
Note: accepted for presentation
Exact and Heuristic Approaches for the Longest Common Palindromic Subsequence Problem
Proceedings of LION~12 – the 12th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, volume 11353 of LNCS, pages 199-214, 2019, Springer.
Finding Longest Common Subsequences: New A* Anytime Results
2019, Technical report AC-TR-19-008, Algorithms and Complexity Group, TU Wien.
Metaheuristic Hybrids
Chapter in Handbook of Metaheuristics (Michel Gendreau and Jean Yves Potvin), pages 385-417, 2019, Springer.
Note: previous technical report version at r̆lhttps://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/files/pub/raidl-19.pdf
Job Sequencing with One Common and Multiple Secondary Resources: A Problem Motivated from Particle Therapy for Cancer Treatment
MOD~2017: Machine Learning, Optimization, and Big Data – Third International Conference (Giuffrida, Giovanni and Nicosia, Giuseppe and Pardalos, Panos and Umeton, Renato), volume 10710 of LNCS, pages 506-518, 2017, Springer.
Computational Performance Evaluation of Two Integer Linear Programming Models for the Minimum Common String Partition Problem
Optimization Letters, volume 10, number 1, pages 189-205, 2016.
Note: previous technical report version at r̆lhttps://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/files/pub/blum-15.pdf
On Solving the Most Strings With Few Bad Columns Problem: An ILP Model and Heuristics
Proceedings of the 2015 International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA) (David Camacho and others), pages 1-8, 2015, IEEE Xplore.
Hybrid Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization: A Survey
Applied Soft Computing, volume 11, pages 4135-4151, 2011.
Note: previous technical report version at r̆lhttps://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/files/pub/blum-11.pdf
A Brief Survey on Hybrid Metaheuristics
Proceedings of BIOMA 2010 – 4th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications (B. Filipic and J. Silc), pages 3-16, 2010.
Metaheuristic Hybrids
Chapter in Handbook of Metaheuristics (Michel Gendreau and Jean Yves Potvin), volume 146 of International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, pages 469-496, 2010, Springer.
Note: previous technical report version at r̆lhttps://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/files/pub/raidl-08a.pdf
Hybrid Metaheuristics
Chapter in CPAIOR 10th Anniversary (M. Milano and P. Van Hentenryck), 2009, Springer.
Note: to appear