Self-adaptation of the mutation strengths is a powerful mechanism in evolution strategies (ES), but it can fail. As a consequence premature convergence or ending up in a local opt...
This paper presents a method for optimizing prostate needle biopsy, by creating a statistical atlas of the spatial distribution of prostate cancer from a large patient cohort. In ...
Dinggang Shen, Zhiqiang Lao, Edward Herskovits, Ga...
We address the task of problem determination in a distributed system using probes, or test transactions, which gather information about system components. Effective probing requir...
Mark Brodie, Irina Rish, Sheng Ma, Natalia Odintso...
: This paper discusses the parallelization of Stochastic Evolution (StocE) metaheuristic, for a distributed parallel environment. VLSI cell placement is used as an optimization pro...
Online auctions have become extremely popular in recent years. Ability to predict winning bid prices accurately can help bidders to maximize their profit. This paper proposes a nu...