New approaches of object representation reliable for partially occluded objects recognition are introduced in this article. Objects are represented by their boundaries, which are ...
This paper studies the issue of space coordinate change in genetic algorithms, based on two methods: convex quadratic approximations, and principal component analysis. In both met...
Elizabeth F. Wanner, Eduardo G. Carrano, Ricardo H...
The spectral profile of a graph is a natural generalization of the classical notion of its Rayleigh quotient. Roughly speaking, given a graph G, for each 0 < < 1, the spect...
Prasad Raghavendra, David Steurer and Prasad Tetal...
Abstract. We consider the problem of scheduling jobs on related machines owned by selfish agents and provide the first deterministic mechanisms with constant approximation that a...
Vincenzo Auletta, Roberto De Prisco, Paolo Penna, ...
Although the issue of approximate text retrieval is gaining importance in the last years, it is currently addressed by only a few indexing schemes. To reduce space requirements, t...