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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF7203</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-1996-7203</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Optimization of a “mixture” of pure heuristics and Monte Carlo algorithms</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Mockus</surname><given-names>Jonas</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Senkienė</surname><given-names>Elvyra</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Vytautas Magnus University, Vileikos St. 8, 2042 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Akademijos St. 4, 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>1996</year></pub-date><volume>7</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>167</fpage><lpage>174</lpage><abstract><p>We consider a stochastic algorithm of optimization in the presented paper. We deal here with the average results of a “mixture” of the deterministics heuristics algorithm and uniform random search. We define the optimal “mixture”.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>average results</kwd><kwd>optimization</kwd><kwd>heuristics</kwd><kwd>mixture</kwd><kwd>uniform random search</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>