The maximum margin clustering approach is a recently proposed extension of the concept of support vector machines to the clustering problem. Briefly stated, it aims at finding a...
A well-known result due to Vickery gives a mechanism for selling a number of goods to interested buyers in a way that achieves the maximum social welfare. In practice, a problem wi...
Efficient and effective deployment of IEEE 802.16 networks to service an area of users with certain traffic demands is an important network planning problem. We resort to an evol...
Ting Hu, Yuanzhu Peter Chen, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Rob...
In order to safeguard a sensitive database, we must ensure both its privacy and its longevity. However, privacy and longevity tend to be competing objectives. We show how to desig...
Bob Mungamuru, Hector Garcia-Molina, Subhasish Mit...
For problems where the evaluation of an individual is the dominant factor in the total computation time of the evolutionary process, minimizing the number of evaluations becomes cr...