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...
We evaluate two broad classes of cognitive mechanisms that might support the learning of sequential patterns. According to the first, learning is based on the gradual accumulation...
The international business environment of port logistics has changed drastically in the last few decades. The increase in international trade, advent of ultra-large vessels, chang...
Abstract—Current programming models and compiler technologies for multi-core processors do not exploit well the performance benefits obtainable by applying algorithm-specific, ...
Huimin Cui, Jingling Xue, Lei Wang, Yang Yang, Xia...
With the development of magnetic resonance imaging techniques for acquiring diffusion tensor data from biological tissue, visualization of tensor data has become a new research fo...