Abstract. Over the years, various research projects have attempted to develop a chess program that learns to play well given little prior knowledge beyond the rules of the game. Ea...
Abstract--The widespread deployment of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) in law enforcement and border control applications has heightened the need for ensuring t...
Large collections of documents containing various types of multimedia, are made available to the WWW. Unfortunately, due to the un-structuredness of Internet environments it is ha...
Abstract. In this paper we propose an optimal anytime version of constrained simulated annealing (CSA) for solving constrained nonlinear programming problems (NLPs). One of the goa...
Abstract. The mathematical concept of document resemblance captures well the informal notion of syntactic similarity. The resemblance can be estimated using a fixed size “sketch...