Crowding is a technique used in genetic algorithms to preserve diversity in the population and to prevent premature convergence to local optima. It consists of pairing each offsp...
Abstract. Constraint Programming (CP) offers a rich modeling language of constraints embedding efficient algorithms to handle complex and heterogeneous combinatorial problems. To s...
Sophie Demassey, Gilles Pesant, Louis-Martin Rouss...
Mining feedback information from user click-through data is an important issue for modern Web retrieval systems in terms of architecture analysis, performance evaluation and algor...
Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Bo Zhou, Liyun ...
— Active appearance model (AAM) has been widely used in face tracking and recognition. However, accuracy and efficiency are always two main challenges with the AAM search. The pa...
Zhidong Li, Jing Chen, Adrian Chong, Zhenghua Yu, ...
This paper describes an algorithm for exact decoding of phrase-based translation models, based on Lagrangian relaxation. The method recovers exact solutions, with certificates of...