: In an extensible database system, evaluation of a query plan is done in cooperation between a collection of operator implementation functions and a component of the DBMS that we ...
Current mainstream Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) are based on the concept of selection, encapsulated in the definition of a fitness function. Besides selection, however, the natur...
A large class of systems of biological and technological relevance can be described as analog networks, that is, collections of dynamic devices interconnected by links of varying s...
Claudio Mattiussi, Daniel Marbach, Peter Dürr, Da...
The k-anonymity privacy requirement for publishing microdata requires that each equivalence class (i.e., a set of records that are indistinguishable from each other with respect to...
Snakes, or active contours, are used extensively in
computer vision and image processing applications, particularly
to locate object boundaries. Problems associated with initiali...