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2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
AIPS
2009
15 years 7 months ago
Efficient Solutions to Factored MDPs with Imprecise Transition Probabilities
When modeling real-world decision-theoretic planning problems in the Markov decision process (MDP) framework, it is often impossible to obtain a completely accurate estimate of tr...
Karina Valdivia Delgado, Scott Sanner, Leliane Nun...
ICDE
2010
IEEE
311views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
16 years 3 months ago
Detecting Inconsistencies in Distributed Data
— One of the central problems for data quality is inconsistency detection. Given a database D and a set Σ of dependencies as data quality rules, we want to identify tuples in D ...
Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Shuai Ma, Heiko Mü...
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KDD
2007
ACM
201views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
Structural and temporal analysis of the blogosphere through community factorization
The blogosphere has unique structural and temporal properties since blogs are typically used as communication media among human individuals. In this paper, we propose a novel tech...
Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu, Xiaodan Song, Jun'ichi Tate...
MM
2009
ACM
187views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Convex experimental design using manifold structure for image retrieval
Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has become one of the most active research areas in computer science. Relevance feedback is often used in CBIR systems to bridge the semantic ...
Lijun Zhang, Chun Chen, Wei Chen, Jiajun Bu, Deng ...