The focus is on black-box optimization of a function f : RN R given as a black box, i. e. an oracle for f-evaluations. This is commonly called direct search, and in fact, most meth...
Distance measures like the Euclidean distance have been the most widely used to measure similarities between feature vectors in the content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. H...
Riadh Ksantini, Djemel Ziou, Bernard Colin, Fran&c...
Semantic databases are a stable starting point in developing knowledge based systems. Since creating language resources demands many temporal, financial and human resources, a pos...
Case-based reasoning (CBR) has a great deal to o er in supporting creative design, particularly processes that rely heavily on previous design experience, such as framing the prob...
We present Promodes, an algorithm for unsupervised word decomposition, which is based on a probabilistic generative model. The model considers segment boundaries as hidden variable...