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ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic registration of 3D datasets using Gaussian fields
—In this paper we introduce a new 3D automatic registration method based on Gaussian fields and energy minimization. The method defines a simple ∞ C energy function, which is c...
Faysal Boughorbel, Andreas Koschan, Mongi A. Abidi
JMLR
2010
143views more  JMLR 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
A Quasi-Newton Approach to Nonsmooth Convex Optimization Problems in Machine Learning
We extend the well-known BFGS quasi-Newton method and its memory-limited variant LBFGS to the optimization of nonsmooth convex objectives. This is done in a rigorous fashion by ge...
Jin Yu, S. V. N. Vishwanathan, Simon Günter, ...
EC
2008
116views ECommerce» more  EC 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Efficient Evaluation Functions for Evolving Coordination
Abstract-- This paper presents a method for creating evaluation functions that efficiently promote coordination in a multiagent system, allowing single-agent evolutionary computati...
Adrian K. Agogino, Kagan Tumer
SIAMJO
2008
112views more  SIAMJO 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Parallel Space Decomposition of the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search Algorithm
This paper describes a Parallel Space Decomposition (PSD) technique for the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm. MADS extends Generalized Pattern Search for constrained n...
Charles Audet, J. E. Dennis, Sébastien Le D...
FTDCS
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
GT-P2PRMI: Improving Middleware Performance Using Peer-to-Peer Service Replication
Peer-to-peer systems have the desirable property that the amount of resources available in the system increase as demand for services increases due to growth of the system. We exp...
Tianying Chang, Mustaque Ahamad