Starting from some simple observations on a popular selection method in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)--tournament selection--we highlight a previously-unknown source of inefficien...
Among the various extensions to the common [0, 1]-valued truth degrees of "traditional" fuzzy set theory, closed intervals of [0, 1] stand out as a particularly appealin...
Chris Cornelis, Glad Deschrijver, Etienne E. Kerre
A simple variant of a priority queue, called a soft heap, is introduced. The data structure supports the usual operations: insert, delete, meld, and findmin. Its novelty is to beat...
Using methods of abstract logic and the theory of valuation, we prove that there is no paraconsistent negation obeying the law of double negation and such that ¬(a ∧ ¬a) is a t...
The paper presents an overview of financial applications of copulas. Copulas permit to represent joint distribution functions by splitting the marginal behavior, embedded in the ma...