In this paper we present a Lagrange-multiplier formulation of discrete constrained optimization problems, the associated discrete-space first-order necessary and sufficient condit...
Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) is a promising approach to coordination, scheduling and task allocation in multi agent networks. In large-scale or low-bandwidth network...
Emma Bowring, Jonathan P. Pearce, Christopher Port...
Recently, an optimization approach for fast visual tracking of articulated structures based on Stochastic Meta-Descent (SMD) [7] has been presented. SMD is a gradient descent with...
Matthieu Bray, Esther Koller-Meier, Nicol N. Schra...
The decentralized sequential hypothesis testing problem is studied in sensor networks, where a set of sensors receive independent observations and send summary messages to the fusi...
Niching is an important technique for multimodal optimization. Most existing niching methods require specification of certain niching parameters in order to perform well. These nic...