In order to be able to evaluate beforehand the impact of a strategical or tactical move, decision makers need reliable previsional systems. What-if analysis satisfies this need by ...
This paper presents a new semi-competitive learning paradigm named Competitive and Cooperative Learning (CCL), in which seed points not only compete each other for updating to ada...
1 We address the problem of resource management for a large-scale cloud environment that hosts sites. Our contribution centers around outlining a distributed middleware architectur...
Much like relational probabilistic models, the need for relational preference models arises naturally in real-world applications where the set of object classes is fixed, but obj...
In many image retrieval applications, the mapping between highlevel semantic concept and low-level features is obtained through a learning process. Traditional approaches often as...