Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
Tensor based orientation adaptive filtering, an explicit methodology for anisotropic filtering, constitutes a flexible framework for medical image enhancement. The technique featu...
Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social i...
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz, Je...
This paper describes the integration of the High Level Architecture (HLA), an IEEE standard for distributed interactive simulation, with a scientific software package (Scilab) and...
Modern organizations face increasingly complex information management requirements. A combination of commercial needs, legal liability and regulatory imperatives has created a pat...
Qing Zhang, John McCullough, Justin Ma, Nabil Sche...