In the propositional setting, a well-studied family of merging operators are distance-based ones: the models of the merged base are the closest interpretations to the given profile...
We introduce a new measure for planar point sets S that captures a combinatorial distance that S is from being a convex set: The reflexivity (S) of S is given by the smallest numb...
Visual dictionaries are widely employed in object recognition to map unordered bags of local region descriptors into feature vectors for image classification. Most visual dictiona...
Abstract. We proposed a new search heuristic using the scuba diving metaphor. This approach is based on the concept of evolvability and tends to exploit neutrality which exists in ...
Microdata protection is a hot topic in the field of Statistical Disclosure Control, which has gained special interest after the disclosure of 658000 queries by the America Online...