Derandomization by means of mirrored samples has been recently introduced to enhance the performances of (1, λ)and (1 + 2)-Evolution-Strategies (ESs) with the aim of designing fa...
Calculation of object similarity, for example through a distance function, is a common part of data mining and machine learning algorithms. This calculation is crucial for efficie...
With the prosperity of tourism and Web 2.0 technologies, more and more people have willingness to share their travel experiences on the Web (e.g., weblogs, forums, or Web 2.0 comm...
Qiang Hao, Rui Cai, Changhu Wang, Rong Xiao, Jiang...
The identification of near-duplicate keyframe (NDK) pairs is a useful task for a variety of applications such as news story threading and content-based video search. In this pape...
The Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problem (VCSP) is a generic optimization problem defined by a network of local cost functions defined over discrete variables. It has applicatio...
Martin C. Cooper, Simon de Givry, M. Sanchez, Thom...