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EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Improving the Performance of Hierarchical Classification with Swarm Intelligence
In this paper we propose a new method to improve the performance of hierarchical classification. We use a swarm intelligence algorithm to select the type of classification algorith...
Nicholas Holden, Alex Alves Freitas
GECCO
2009
Springer
148views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
13 years 10 months ago
Tracking multiple objects in non-stationary video
One of the key problems in computer vision and pattern recognition is tracking. Multiple objects, occlusion, and tracking moving objects using a moving camera are some of the chal...
Hoang Nguyen, Bir Bhanu
MM
2004
ACM
191views Multimedia» more  MM 2004»
14 years 26 days ago
SwarmArt: interactive art from swarm intelligence
This paper describes SwarmArt, a collaborative project between computer science and art, which resulted in two installations of interactive art that incorporates swarm intelligenc...
Jeffrey E. Boyd, Gerald Hushlak, Christian Jacob
ICANN
2005
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Varying the Population Size of Artificial Foraging Swarms on Time Varying Landscapes
Abstract. Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the property of a system whereby the collective behaviors of (unsophisticated) entities interacting locally with their environment cause cohere...
Carlos Fernandes, Vitorino Ramos, Agostinho C. Ros...
BERTINORO
2005
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Self-Management of Virtual Paths in Dynamic Networks
Abstract Virtual path management in dynamic networks poses a number of challenges related to combinatorial optimisation, fault and traffic handling. Ideally such management should ...
Poul E. Heegaard, Otto Wittner, Bjarne E. Helvik
MSWIM
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A swarm intelligent multi-path routing for multimedia traffic over mobile ad hoc networks
In the last few years, the advance of multimedia applications has prompted researchers to undertake the task of routing multimedia data through Manet. This task is rather difficul...
Saida Ziane, Abdelhamid Mellouk
ICNS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Promise theory - a model of autonomous objects for pervasive computing and swarms
Abstract— The theory of promises describes policy governed services, in a framework of completely autonomous agents, which assist one another by voluntary cooperation alone. We p...
Mark Burgess, Siri Fagernes
MUE
2007
IEEE
75views Multimedia» more  MUE 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
A Swarm Intelligence inspired Autonomic Routing Scenario in Ubiquitous Sensor Networks
Autonomic computing has attracted large amount of attention as a novel computing paradigm in the past few years. In this paper, we explore the inherent accordance between autonomi...
Jin Wang, Brian J. d'Auriol, Young-Koo Lee, Sungyo...
GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
ACCV
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Smarter Particle Filter
Particle filtering is an effective sequential Monte Carlo approach to solve the recursive Bayesian filtering problem in non-linear and non-Gaussian systems. The algorithm is base...
Xiaoqin Zhang, Weiming Hu, Steve J. Maybank