Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on...
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo,...
Background: The use of ontologies to control vocabulary and structure annotation has added value to genomescale data, and contributed to the capture and re-use of knowledge across...
Melissa J. Davis, Muhammad Shoaib B. Sehgal, Mark ...
A novel method of Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC) for the design of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is presented. As the main limitation of IEC is human fatigue, a...
Raffi R. Kamalian, Ying Zhang, Hideyuki Takagi, Al...
Starting from some simple observations on a popular selection method in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)--tournament selection--we highlight a previously-unknown source of inefficien...
Abstract: We present a method for simultaneous three-dimensional (3D) structure generation and pharmacophorebased alignment using a self-organizing algorithm called Stochastic Prox...