Many real–world information needs are naturally formulated as queries with temporal constraints. However, the structured temporal background information needed to support such c...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
— Metaheuristics such as Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and the Cross-Entropy method use probabilistic modelling and inference to generate candidate solutions in optimizat...
Marcus Gallagher, Ian Wood, Jonathan M. Keith, Geo...
Importance sampling-based algorithms are a popular alternative when Bayesian network models are too large or too complex for exact algorithms. However, importance sampling is sensi...
The notion of optimality naturally arises in many areas of applied mathematics and computer science concerned with decision making. Here we consider this notion in the context of ...
Krzysztof R. Apt, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent V...
Symbiosis, the collaboration of multiple organisms from different species, is common in nature. A related phenomenon, symbiogenesis, the creation of new species through the genetic...