In combinatorial solution spaces Iterated Local Search (ILS) turns out to be exceptionally successful. The question arises: is ILS also capable of improving the optimization proces...
The focus of warfare has shifted from the Industrial Age to the Information Age, as encapsulated by the term Network Enabled Capability. This emphasises information sharing, comma...
Automated segmentation and analysis of tree-like structures from 3D medical images are important for many medical applications, such as those dealing with blood vasculature or lun...
The exploration of multidimensional scalar fields is commonly based on the knowledge of the topology of their isosurfaces. The latter is established through the analysis of critic...
Originally, the hierarchical coding structure was proposed to achieve temporal scalability. Soon after, it was realized that with a proper quantization parameter cascading (QPC) s...