This paper introduces a novel scheme of improving the performance of particle swarm optimization (PSO) by a vector differential operator borrowed from differential evolution (DE)....
Abstract. Ambiguity in dynamic programming arises from two independent sources, the non-uniqueness of optimal solutions and the particular recursion scheme by which the search spac...
With the growing significance of digital libraries and the Internet, more and more electronic texts become accessible to a wide and geographically disperse public. This requires a...
Ulrich Schiel, Ianna M. S. F. de Sousa, Edberto Fe...
We present a chosen-ciphertext attack against both NICE cryptosystems. These two cryptosystems are based on computations in the class group of non-maximal imaginary orders. More pr...
The paper presents a method for uncertainty propagation in Bayesian networks in symbolic, as opposed to numeric, form. The algebraic structure of probabilities is characterized. Th...