—Image segmentation plays an important role in image analysis and computer vision system. Among all segmentation techniques, the automatic thresholding methods are widely used be...
A variety of hybrid genetic algorithms has been recently proposed to address the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW), a problem known to be NP-hard. However, very few...
Quantified Constraint Satisfaction Problems (QCSPs) are CSPs in which some variables are universally quantified. For each possible value of such variables, we have to find ways to ...
Ian P. Gent, Peter Nightingale, Andrew G. D. Rowle...
A new stochastic optimization algorithm referred to by the authors as the `Mean-Variance Optimization' (MVO) algorithm is presented in this paper. MVO falls into the category ...
Istvan Erlich, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Nakawiro...
The user observed latency of retrieving Web documents is one of
limiting factors while using the Internet as an information data source.
Prefetching became important technique ...