Standard tournament selection samples individuals with replacement. The sampling-with-replacement strategy has its advantages but also has issues. One of the commonly recognised i...
Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae, Mark Jo...
Crowding is a technique used in genetic algorithms to preserve diversity in the population and to prevent premature convergence to local optima. It consists of pairing each offsp...
This paper describes the design and use of a synthetic Web proxy workload generator called ProWGen to investigate the sensitivity of Web proxy cache replacement policies to five se...
This paper presents data selection procedures for support vector machines (SVM). The purpose of data selection is to reduce the dataset by eliminating as many non support vectors ...
The morphological top-hat operator for greyscale images is part of the basic toolbox of mathematical morphology operators. We discuss two ways of generalising the tophat operator ...