This paper introduces the concept of a critical backbone as a minimal set of variables or part of the solution necessary to be within the basin of attraction of the global optimum...
The main aim of randomized search heuristics is to produce good approximations of optimal solutions within a small amount of time. In contrast to numerous experimental results, th...
Tobias Friedrich, Nils Hebbinghaus, Frank Neumann,...
The richness of today’s electronic communications mirrors physical world: activities such as shopping, business and scientific collaboration are conducted online. Current intera...
Abstract. Since texture is scale dependent, multi-scale techniques are quite useful for texture classification. Scale-space theory introduces multi-scale differential operators. In...
Mehrdad J. Gangeh, Bart M. ter Haar Romeny, C. Esw...
The (Euclidean) Vehicle Routing Allocation Problem (VRAP) is a generalization of Euclidean TSP. We do not require that all points lie on the salesman tour. However, points that do ...