The problem of answering queries using views is to find efficient methods of answering a query using a set of previously materialized views over the database, rather than accessing...
A new evolutionary method named “Genetic Network Programming with Control Nodes, GNPcn” has been proposed and applied to determine the timing of buying and selling stocks. GNP...
Etsushi Ohkawa, Yan Chen, Shingo Mabu, Kaoru Shima...
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique proved its ability to deal with very complicated optimization and search problems. This paper proposes a new particle swarm variant whi...
Background: Multiple genome alignment is an important problem in bioinformatics. An important subproblem used by many multiple alignment approaches is that of aligning two multipl...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...