Stochastic Algorithms: Foundations and Applications [electronic resource] : Second International Symposium, SAGA 2003, Hatfield, UK, September 22-23, 2003. Proceedings / edited by Andreas Albrecht, Kathleen Steinhöfel.

Prospects of Quantum Informatics -- A Converging ACO Algorithm for Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization -- Optimality of Randomized Algorithms for the Intersection Problem -- Stochastic Algorithms for Gene Expression Analysis -- Analysis of a Randomized Local Search Algorithm for LDPCC Decoding Problem -- Testing a Simulated Annealing Algorithm in a Classification Problem -- Global Search through Sampling Using a PDF -- Simulated Annealing for Optimal Pivot Selection in Jacobian Accumulation -- Quantum Data Compression -- Who’sThe Weakest Link? -- On the Stochastic Open Shop Problem -- Global Optimization – Stochastic or Deterministic? -- Two-Component Traffic Modelled by Cellular Automata: Imposing Passing Restrictions on Slow Vehicles Increases the Flow -- Average-Case Complexity of Partial Boolean Functions -- Classes of Binary Rational Distributions Closed under Discrete Transformations.