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CGF
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Enhancing the Interactive Visualization of Procedurally Encoded Multifield Data with Ellipsoidal Basis Functions
Functional approximation of scattered data is a popular technique for compactly representing various types of datasets in computer graphics, including surface, volume, and vector ...
Yun Jang, Ralf P. Botchen, Andreas Lauser, David S...
GECCO
2006
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
PSO and multi-funnel landscapes: how cooperation might limit exploration
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a population-based optimization method in which search points employ a cooperative strategy to move toward one another. In this paper we show ...
Andrew M. Sutton, Darrell Whitley, Monte Lunacek, ...
ATAL
2005
Springer
16 years 4 days ago
Improving reinforcement learning function approximators via neuroevolution
Reinforcement learning problems are commonly tackled with temporal difference methods, which use dynamic programming and statistical sampling to estimate the long-term value of ta...
Shimon Whiteson
BMCBI
2007
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A general and efficient method for estimating continuous IBD functions for use in genome scans for QTL
Background: Identity by descent (IBD) matrix estimation is a central component in mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) using variance component models. A large number of algor...
Francois Besnier, Örjan Carlborg
BMCBI
2005
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ProfNet, a method to derive profile-profile alignment scoring functions that improves the alignments of distantly related protei
Background: Profile-profile methods have been used for some years now to detect and align homologous proteins. The best such methods use information from the background distributi...
Tomas Ohlson, Arne Elofsson