Hill-climbing has been shown to be more effective than exhaustive search in solving satisfiability problems.Also, it has been used either by itself or in combination with other ...
The ability to analyse and represent formally semantic relations of terms is a core issue in information retrieval (IR), natural language processing (NLP), and in many related are...
Newton’s method is a basic tool in numerical analysis and numerous applications, including operations research and data mining. We survey the history of the method, its main ide...
This survey reviews fundamental concepts of multi-user information theory. Starting with typical sequences, the survey builds up knowledge on random coding, binning, superposition...
We observe that the W∗ -hierarchy, a variant (introduced by Downey, Fellows, and Taylor [8]) of the better known W-hierarchy, coincides with the W-hierarchy, though not level wi...