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CEC
2005
IEEE
16 years 13 days ago
Constraint quadratic approximation operator for treating equality constraints with genetic algorithms
Abstract- This paper presents a new operator for genetic algorithms that enhances their convergence in the case of nonlinear problems with nonlinear equality constraints. The propo...
Elizabeth F. Wanner, Frederico G. Guimarães...
NOMS
1998
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
SP-to-SP service ordering specification and its implementation
Network Management Forum (NMF) has defined a set of basic business processes dealing with major TMN service management functions such as performance management, fault management, b...
Graham Chen, Qinzheng Kong, Pierre-Yves Benain
CP
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Hierarchically Nested Convex VCSP
We introduce tractable classes of VCSP instances based on convex cost functions. Firstly, we show that the class of VCSP instances satisfying the hierarchically nested convexity pr...
Martin C. Cooper, Stanislav Zivny
JMLR
2012
13 years 9 months ago
Noise-Contrastive Estimation of Unnormalized Statistical Models, with Applications to Natural Image Statistics
We consider the task of estimating, from observed data, a probabilistic model that is parameterized by a finite number of parameters. In particular, we are considering the situat...
Michael Gutmann, Aapo Hyvärinen
IPPS
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Storage Optimization for Large-Scale Distributed Stream Processing Systems
We consider storage in an extremely large-scale distributed computer system designed for stream processing applications. In such systems, incoming data and intermediate results ma...
Kirsten Hildrum, Fred Douglis, Joel L. Wolf, Phili...