Neighborhood filters are nonlocal image and movie filters which reduce the noise by averaging similar pixels. The first object of the paper is to present a unified theory of these...
When a manufacturer places repeated orders with a supplier to meet changing production requirements, he faces the challenge of finding the right balance between holding costs and ...
Often several cooperating parties would like to have a global view of their joint data for various data mining objectives, but cannot reveal the contents of individual records due...
In this paper, we first design a more generalized network model, Improved CBP, based on the same structure as Circular BackPropagation (CBP) proposed by Ridella et al. The novelty ...
We consider derivative free methods based on sampling approaches for nonlinear optimization problems where derivatives of the objective function are not available and cannot be dir...