Given a set of specifications for a targeted application, algorithm selection refers to choosing the most suitable algorithm for a given goal, among several functionally equivalen...
Existing privacy-preserving evolutionary algorithms are limited to specific problems securing only cost function evaluation. This lack of functionality and security prevents thei...
In this paper we describe XXL (eXtensible and fleXible Library), a toolkit for rapid prototyping query processing algorithms. XXL is a flexible, high-level, platform independent J...
Jochen Van den Bercken, Jens-Peter Dittrich, Bernh...
Top-k queries on large multi-attribute data sets are fundamental operations in information retrieval and ranking applications. In this paper, we initiate research on the anytime b...
Benjamin Arai, Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Ni...
— Metaheuristics such as Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and the Cross-Entropy method use probabilistic modelling and inference to generate candidate solutions in optimizat...
Marcus Gallagher, Ian Wood, Jonathan M. Keith, Geo...