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EVOW
2007
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Reducing the Size of Traveling Salesman Problem Instances by Fixing Edges
Abstract. The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well-known NPhard combinatorial optimization problem, for which a large variety of evolutionary algorithms are known. However, t...
Thomas Fischer, Peter Merz
CP
2006
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Performance Prediction and Automated Tuning of Randomized and Parametric Algorithms
Abstract. Machine learning can be utilized to build models that predict the runtime of search algorithms for hard combinatorial problems. Such empirical hardness models have previo...
Frank Hutter, Youssef Hamadi, Holger H. Hoos, Kevi...
EDBT
2009
ACM
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15 years 8 months ago
Towards materialized view selection for distributed databases
Materialized views (MV) can significantly improve the query performance of relational databases. In this paper, we consider MVs to optimize complex scenarios where many heterogen...
Leonardo Weiss Ferreira Chaves, Erik Buchmann, Fab...
ICIP
2003
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Unsupervised statistical sketching for non-photorealistic rendering models
This paper investigates the use of the Bayesian inference for devising an unsupervised sketch rendering procedure. As likelihood model of this inference, we exploit the recent sta...
Max Mignotte
ICCV
2007
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
 A Component Based Deformable Model for Generalized Face Alignment
This paper presents a component based deformable model for generalized face alignment, in which a novel bistage statistical framework is proposed to account for both local and g...
Yuchi Huang, Qingshan Liu, Dimitris Metaxas