— This paper introduces the contextual dissimilarity measure which significantly improves the accuracy of bag-offeatures based image search. Our measure takes into account the l...
Recombination (also called crossover) operators are widely used in EAs to generate offspring solutions. Although the usefulness of recombination has been well recognized, theoretic...
Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM) is an important technique for dimension reduction which has been successfully applied to many fields. However the usual Expectation-Maximizat...
Jong Youl Choi, Judy Qiu, Marlon E. Pierce, Geoffr...
One important design decision for the development of autonomously navigating mobile robots is the choice of the representation of the environment. This includes the question which...
Designing and deploying a network protocol determines the rules by which end users interact with each other and with the network. We consider the problem of designing a protocol t...