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APIN
1999
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15 years 6 months ago
Evolutionary Approaches to Figure-Ground Separation
The problem of figure-ground separation is tackled from the perspective of combinatorial optimization. Previous attempts have used deterministic optimization techniques based on re...
Suchendra M. Bhandarkar, Xia Zeng
IJCAI
2003
15 years 8 months ago
Spaces of Theories with Ideal Refinement Operators
Refinement operators for theories avoid the problems related to the myopia of many relational learning algorithms based on the operators that refine single clauses. However, the n...
Nicola Fanizzi, Stefano Ferilli, Nicola Di Mauro, ...
TCAD
2002
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15 years 6 months ago
Hierarchical buffered routing tree generation
Abstract--This paper presents a solution to the problem of performance-driven buffered routing tree generation for VLSI circuits. Using a novel bottom-up construction algorithm and...
Amir H. Salek, Jinan Lou, Massoud Pedram
STOC
2009
ACM
120views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
A constant-factor approximation for stochastic Steiner forest
We consider the stochastic Steiner forest problem: suppose we were given a collection of Steiner forest instances, and were guaranteed that a random one of these instances would a...
Anupam Gupta, Amit Kumar
GECCO
2005
Springer
143views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
16 years 7 days ago
Solving geometric TSP with ants
This paper presents an ant-based approach for solving the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). Novel concepts of this algorithm that distinguish it from the other heuristics are the ...
Thang Nguyen Bui, Mufit Colpan