We present a Kernighan-Lin style local improvement heuristic for genetic algorithms. We analyze the run-time cost of the heuristic. We demonstrate through experiments that the heur...
The text-mining system we are building deals with the specific problem of identifying the instances of relevant concepts present in the texts. Therefore, our system relies on inte...
One frequently studied problem in the context of information dissemination in communication networks is the broadcasting problem. In this paper, we study the following randomized b...
There can be no doubt that risk management is an important activity in the software engineering area. One proof of this is the large body of work existing in this area. However, w...
Abstract. Given an image, digital matting consists in extracting a foreground element from the background. Standard methods are initialized with a trimap, a partition of the image ...