The focus is on black-box optimization of a function f : RN R given as a black box, i. e. an oracle for f-evaluations. This is commonly called direct search, and in fact, most meth...
As the XML has become a standard for data representation, it is inevitable to propose and implement techniques for efficient managing of XML data. A natural alternative is to expl...
Clustering Stability methods are a family of widely used model selection techniques applied in data clustering. Their unifying theme is that an appropriate model should result in ...
In recent years manifold methods have attracted a considerable amount of attention in machine learning. However most algorithms in that class may be termed “manifold-motivatedâ€...
In this paper, we present a new independent component analysis mixture vector quantization (ICAMVQ) method to summarize the video content. In particular, independent component ana...