A modification of the standard Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm is presented for finding the global minimum of a continuous multidimensional, multimodal function. We report resu...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
In many distributed environments, the primary function of monitoring software is to detect anomalies, that is, instances when system behavior deviates substantially from the norm....
Shipra Agrawal, Supratim Deb, K. V. M. Naidu, Raje...
The ability to identify the mineral composition of rocks and soils is an important tool for the exploration of geological sites. Even though expert knowledge is commonly used for t...
Jonathan Moody, Ricardo Bezerra de Andrade e Silva...
Among the vast numbers of images on the web are many duplicates and near-duplicates, that is, variants derived from the same original image. Such near-duplicates appear in many we...
Jun Jie Foo, Justin Zobel, Ranjan Sinha, Seyed M. ...