A new stochastic clustering algorithm is introduced that aims to locate all the local minima of a multidimensional continuous and differentiable function inside a bounded domain. ...
In order for agents to act on behalf of users, they will have to retrieve and integrate vast amounts of textual data on the World Wide Web. However, much of the useful data on the...
Deductive program synthesis systems based on automated theorem proving offer the promise of software that is correct by construction. However, the difficulty encountered in constru...
rs use models or abstractions that hide low-level implementation details. Various kinds of representations such as data models, state-transition models, and dataflow models can hel...
s In data mining, we emphasize the need for learning from huge, incomplete and imperfect data sets (Fayyad et al. 1996, Frawley et al. 1991, Piatetsky-Shapiro and Frawley, 1991). T...