n explore and understand abstract information spaces as if they were real geographic spaces. According to the distance-similarity metaphor1 one of the most popular spatial metaphor...
Sara Irina Fabrikant, Daniel R. Montello, David M....
Fitness functions based on test cases are very common in Genetic Programming (GP). This process can be assimilated to a learning task, with the inference of models from a limited n...
A modification of the standard Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm is presented for finding the global minimum of a continuous multidimensional, multimodal function. We report resu...
A new stochastic method for locating the global minimum of a multidimensional function inside a rectangular hyperbox is presented. A sampling technique is employed that makes use ...
Background: To date more than 2,1 million gene products from more than 100000 different species have been described specifying their function, the processes they are involved in a...