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...
Quantum chemistry applications such as the General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System (GAMESS) that can execute on a complex peta-scale parallel computing environment...
The clustering coefficient of a node in a social network is a fundamental measure that quantifies how tightly-knit the community is around the node. Its computation can be reduce...
Widespread use of surveillance cameras in offices and
other business establishments, pose a significant threat to
the privacy of the employees and visitors. The challenge of
int...
Maneesh Upmanyu, Anoop M. Namboodiri, Kannan Srina...
In this paper, we address the use of three dimensional facial shape information for human face identification. We propose a new method to represent faces as 3D registered point cl...