"The term “design patterns” sounds a bit formal to the uninitiated and
can be somewhat off-putting when you first encounter it. But, in fact, design
patterns are just co...
Finding the core members of a virtual community is an important problem in community analysis. Here we presented an simulated annealing algorithm to solve this problem by optimizi...
Spinning reserve is idle capacity connected to the system with the purpose of balancing power demand and supply in real-time and ensuring reliable system operations in the case of...
Abductive inference has long been associated with the logic of scientific discovery and automated abduction is now being used in real scientific tasks. But few methods can exploi...
— Fuzzy clustering methods have been widely used in many applications. These methods, including fuzzy k-means and Expectation Maximization, allow an object to be assigned to mult...