AND
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
This paper presents an adaptive method for the skew angle estimation of noisy handwritten Arabic documents using the energy distributions of Cohen’s class. The presence of noise...
GECCO
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
We propose a network characterization of combinatorial fitness landscapes by adapting the notion of inherent networks proposed for energy surfaces [5]. We use the well-known fami...
NIPS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We present an algorithm to overcome the local maxima problem in estimating the parameters of mixture models. It combines existing approaches from both EM and a robust fitting algo...
FSTTCS
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Springer
In this paper we investigate some properties and algorithms related to a text sparsification technique based on the identification of local maxima in the given string. As the numb...
HICSS
1994
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1994
IEEE
We are developing a new problem-solving methodology based on a self-organization paradigm. To realize our future goal of self-organizing computational systems, we have to study co...
WEA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
The elevation function on a smoothly embedded 2-manifold in R3 reflects the multiscale topography of cavities and protrusions as local maxima. The function has been useful in iden...