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SIGGRAPH
1990
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Fast animation and control of nonrigid structures
We describe a fast method for creating physically based animation of non-rigid objects. Rapid simulation of nonrigid behavior is based on global deformations. Constraints are used...
Andrew P. Witkin, William Welch
PPSN
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
First-Improvement vs. Best-Improvement Local Optima Networks of NK Landscapes
Abstract. This paper extends a recently proposed model for combinatorial landscapes: Local Optima Networks (LON), to incorporate a first-improvement (greedyascent) hill-climbing a...
Gabriela Ochoa, Sébastien Vérel, Mar...
SAB
2010
Springer
110views Optimization» more  SAB 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
How to Pick the Right One: Investigating Tradeoffs among Female Mate Choice Strategies in Treefrogs
Two main theories of female mate choice, that females either pick the best from the n closest males (best-of-n) or the closest with some minimum quality (min-threshold), make diffe...
Matthias Scheutz, Jack Harris, Sunny K. Boyd
COLING
2010
14 years 11 months ago
Discriminant Ranking for Efficient Treebanking
Treebank annotation is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task. In this paper, we show that a simple statistical ranking model can significantly improve treebanking efficiency b...
Yi Zhang 0003, Valia Kordoni
ICDM
2007
IEEE
136views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
Dynamic Micro Targeting: Fitness-Based Approach to Predicting Individual Preferences
It is crucial to segment customers intelligently in order to offer more targeted and personalized products and services. Traditionally, customer segmentation is achieved using sta...
Tianyi Jiang, Alexander Tuzhilin