SDM
2012
SIAM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
SIAM
Network-analysis literature is rich in node-centrality measures that quantify the centrality of a node as a function of the (shortest) paths of the network that go through it. Exi...
SODA
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Statistical data frequently includes outliers; these can distort the results of estimation procedures and optimization problems. For this reason, loss functions which deemphasize ...
ACIIDS
2012
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
2012
IEEE
This paper introduces an improved evolutionary algorithm based on the Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA), called Quad Countries Algorithm (QCA). The Imperialist Competitive Al...
CIKM
2011
Springer
13 years 11 days ago
2011
Springer
Streaming user-generated content in the form of blogs, microblogs, forums, and multimedia sharing sites, provides a rich source of data from which invaluable information and insig...
CEC
2011
IEEE
13 years 12 days ago
2011
IEEE
—Over the last two decades, many Differential Evolution (DE) strategies have been introduced for solving Optimization Problems. Due to the variability of the characteristics in o...
ICCV
2011
IEEE
13 years 13 days ago
2011
IEEE
In geometric computer vision, the structure from motion (SfM) problem can be formulated as a optimization problem with a rank constraint. It is well known that the trace norm of a...
TIT
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Abstract--We establish that the min-sum messagepassing algorithm and its asynchronous variants converge for a large class of unconstrained convex optimization problems, generalizin...
TIP
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Much research has been devoted to the problem of restoring Poissonian images, namely for medical and astronomical applications. However, the restoration of these images using state...
TEC
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
In the real world, many optimization problems are dynamic. This requires an optimization algorithm to not only find the global optimal solution under a specific environment but als...
TEC
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
-- We encounter optimization problems in our daily lives and in various research domains. Some of them are so hard that we can, at best, approximate the best solutions with (meta-)...