In this paper, a novel discrete differential evolution (DDE) algorithm is presented to solve the permutation flowhop scheduling problem with the makespan criterion. The DDE algori...
Quan-Qe Pan, Mehmet Fatih Tasgetiren, Yun-Chia Lia...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a constraint-partitioning approach for finding local optimal solutions of large-scale mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems (MINLPs). Ba...
—The conventional K-Means clustering algorithm must know the number of clusters in advance and the clustering result is sensitive to the selection of the initial cluster centroid...
Jing Xiao, YuPing Yan, Ying Lin, Ling Yuan, Jun Zh...
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 ...
Professional sports leagues are a major economic activity around the world. Teams and leagues do not want to waste their investments in players and structure in consequence of poo...