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WSC
1997
13 years 9 months ago
Comparison of Monte Carlo and Deterministic Methods for Non-Adaptive Optimization
In this paper we compare the average performance of Monte Carlo methods for global optimization with non-adaptive deterministic alternatives. We analyze the behavior of the algori...
Hisham A. Al-Mharmah, James M. Calvin
KDD
2009
ACM
269views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Extracting discriminative concepts for domain adaptation in text mining
One common predictive modeling challenge occurs in text mining problems is that the training data and the operational (testing) data are drawn from different underlying distributi...
Bo Chen, Wai Lam, Ivor Tsang, Tak-Lam Wong
FGR
2004
IEEE
167views Biometrics» more  FGR 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptive Learning of an Accurate Skin-Color Model
Due to variations of lighting conditions, camera hardware settings, and the range of skin coloration among human beings, a pre-defined skin-color model cannot accurately capture t...
Qiang Zhu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Ching-Tung Wu, Yi-Leh...
APIN
2000
120views more  APIN 2000»
13 years 8 months ago
Two-Loop Real-Coded Genetic Algorithms with Adaptive Control of Mutation Step Sizes
Genetic algorithms are adaptive methods based on natural evolution that may be used for search and optimization problems. They process a population of search space solutions with t...
Francisco Herrera, Manuel Lozano
VLDB
2002
ACM
138views Database» more  VLDB 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Adaptable Similarity Search using Non-Relevant Information
Many modern database applications require content-based similarity search capability in numeric attribute space. Further, users' notion of similarity varies between search se...
T. V. Ashwin, Rahul Gupta, Sugata Ghosal