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GECCO
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Kernighan-Lin Local Improvement Heuristic That Solves Some Hard Problems in Genetic Algorithms
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...
William A. Greene
TREC
2004
13 years 10 months ago
From the Texts to the Contexts They Contain: A Chain of Linguistic Treatments
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...
Ahmed Amrani, Jérôme Azé, Thom...
STACS
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Broadcasting vs. Mixing and Information Dissemination on Cayley Graphs
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...
Robert Elsässer, Thomas Sauerwald
ICSM
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Risk Taxonomy Proposal for Software Maintenance
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...
Kenia P. Batista Webster, Káthia Març...
VLSM
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Trimap Segmentation for Fast and User-Friendly Alpha Matting
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 ...
Olivier Juan, Renaud Keriven