There are information needs involving costly decisions that cannot be efficiently satisfied through conventional web search engines. Alternately, community centric search can prov...
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun'ichi Tatemu...
The Web has become a ubiquitous tool for distributing knowledge and information and for conducting businesses. To exploit the huge potential of the Web as a global information rep...
—Triangulated meshes have become ubiquitous discrete surface representations. In this paper, we address the problem of how to maintain the manifold properties of a surface while ...
— In this paper, a time varying jumping rate (TVJR) model for Opposition-Based Differential Evolution (ODE) has been proposed. According to this model, the jumping rate changes l...
Shahryar Rahnamayan, Hamid R. Tizhoosh, Magdy M. A...
Self-adaptation of the mutation strengths is a powerful mechanism in evolution strategies (ES), but it can fail. As a consequence premature convergence or ending up in a local opt...