Record linkage, the problem of determining when two records refer to the same entity, has applications for both data cleaning (deduplication) and for integrating data from multipl...
We demonstrate a phonotactic-semantic paradigm for spoken document categorization. In this framework, we define a set of acoustic words instead of lexical words to represent acous...
This paper investigates the impact of sequential selection, a concept recently introduced for Evolution Strategies (ESs), that consists in performing the evaluations of the diffe...
This paper introduces an improved evolutionary algorithm based on the Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA), called Quad Countries Algorithm (QCA). The Imperialist Competitive Al...
M. A. Soltani-Sarvestani, Shahriar Lotfi, Fatemeh ...
The paper compares six conventional binarization methods for the special purpose of subsequent analysis of scanned insect footprints. We introduce a new performance criterion for p...