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INFORMS
2000
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15 years 5 months ago
A Revised Simplex Search Procedure for Stochastic Simulation Response Surface Optimization
We develop a variant of the Nelder-Mead (NM) simplex search procedure for stochastic simulation optimization that is designed to avoid many of the weaknesses encumbering such dire...
David G. Humphrey, James R. Wilson
ICIAR
2009
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Robust Modular Wavelet Network Based Symbol Classifier
This paper presents a robust automatic shape classifier using modular wavelet networks (MWNs). A shape descriptor is constructed based on a combination of global geometric features...
Akshaya Kumar Mishra, Paul W. Fieguth, David A. Cl...
ICDCS
2010
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Stochastic Steepest-Descent Optimization of Multiple-Objective Mobile Sensor Coverage
—We propose a steepest descent method to compute optimal control parameters for balancing between multiple performance objectives in stateless stochastic scheduling, wherein the ...
Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, Nung Kwan Yip, Na...
ECCV
2010
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Towards Optimal Naive Bayes Nearest Neighbor
Abstract. Naive Bayes Nearest Neighbor (NBNN) is a feature-based image classifier that achieves impressive degree of accuracy [1] by exploiting ‘Image-toClass’ distances and b...
RAS
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
From pixels to multi-robot decision-making: A study in uncertainty
Mobile robots must cope with uncertainty from many sources along the path from interpreting raw sensor inputs to behavior selection to execution of the resulting primitive actions...
Peter Stone, Mohan Sridharan, Daniel Stronger, Gre...