Abstract. A useful ability for search engines is to be able to rank objects with novelty and diversity: the top k documents retrieved should cover possible interpretations of a que...
Abstract. The maximum diversity problem (MDP) consists in identifying, in a population, a subset of elements, characterized by a set of attributes, that present the most diverse ch...
L. F. Santos, Marcos Henrique Ribeiro, Alexandre P...
— The bootstrap problem is often recognized as one of the main challenges of evolutionary robotics: if all individuals from the first randomly generated population perform equal...
A novel connectionist method is proposed to simultaneously use diverse features in an optimal way for pattern classification. Unlike methods of combining multiple classifiers, a m...
The most popular approaches for reconstructing phylogenetic trees attempt to solve NP-hard optimization criteria such as maximum parsimony (MP). Currently, the bestperforming heur...