Local search algorithms often get trapped in local optima. Algorithms such as tabu search and simulated annealing 'escape' local optima by accepting nonimproving moves. ...
Laura Barbulescu, Jean-Paul Watson, L. Darrell Whi...
Animation authoring involves an author's interaction with a scene, resulting in varying scene complexity for a given animation sequence. In such a varying environment, detecti...
Parag Agarwal, Srinivas Rajagopalan, B. Prabhakara...
In this paper we incorporate autonomous agents' capability to perform parallel interactions into the cooperative search model, resulting in a new method which outperforms the...
A large fraction of an XML document typically consists of text data. The XPath query language allows text search via the equal, contains, and starts-with predicates. Such predicate...
Diego Arroyuelo, Francisco Claude, Sebastian Manet...
We develop a data structure for maintaining a dynamic multiset that uses O(n lg lg n/ lg n) bits and O(1) words, in addition to the space required by the n elements stored, suppor...