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PPSN
2004
Springer
16 years 7 days ago
Constrained Evolutionary Optimization by Approximate Ranking and Surrogate Models
Abstract. The paper describes an evolutionary algorithm for the general nonlinear programming problem using a surrogate model. Surrogate models are used in optimization when model ...
Thomas Philip Runarsson
CP
2003
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
Applying Interchangeability Techniques to the Distributed Breakout Algorithm
This paper presents two methods for improving the performance of the Distributed Breakout Algorithm using the notion of interchangeability. In particular, we use neighborhood part...
Adrian Petcu, Boi Faltings
ECSQARU
2003
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
A Representation Theorem and Applications
We introduce a set of transformations on the set of all probability distributions over a finite state space, and show that these transformations are the only ones that preserve c...
Manfred Jaeger
ICDT
2003
ACM
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16 years 2 days ago
XPath Containment in the Presence of Disjunction, DTDs, and Variables
XPath is a simple language for navigating an XML tree and returning a set of answer nodes. The focus in this paper is on the complexity of the containment problem for various fragm...
Frank Neven, Thomas Schwentick
NPAR
2010
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Non-Photorealistic Rendering and the science of art
I argue that Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) research will play a key role in the scientific understanding of visual art and illustration. NPR can contribute to scientific un...
Aaron Hertzmann