The No-Free-Lunch theorems (NFLTs) are criticized for being too general to be of any relevance to the real world scenario. This paper investigates, both formally and empirically, ...
Cooperative coevolution has proven to be a promising technique for solving complex combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we present four different strategies which i...
Leonardo Vanneschi, Giancarlo Mauri, Andrea Valsec...
Reuse of IP blocks has been advocated as a means to conquer the complexity of today's system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Component integration and verification in such systems is ...
Assistance to people suffering from cognitive deficiencies in a smart home raises complex issues. Plan recognition is one of them. We propose a formal framework for the recognition...
Bruno Bouchard, Sylvain Giroux, Abdenour Bouzouane
The paper presents a hardware friendly fast algorithm and its architecture for motion estimation (ME) in H.264 video coding. The fast algorithm adopts the quarter pel subsampling a...