Abstract. The NValue constraint counts the number of different values assigned to a vector of variables. Propagating generalized arc consistency on this constraint is NP-hard. We ...
In this paper, we describe a novel statistical audio watermarking scheme. Under the control of the masking thresholds, watermark is embedded adaptively and transparently in the pe...
Financial derivatives are contracts concerning rights and obligations to engage in future transactions on some underlying financial instrument. A major concern in financial mark...
In recent years, metric learning in the semisupervised setting has aroused a lot of research interests. One type of semi-supervised metric learning utilizes supervisory informatio...
Discrete optimization problemsarise throughout many real world domainsincluding planning, decision making, and search. NP-hardin general, these problems require novel approachesto...