The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
The two main techniques of improving I/O performance of Object Oriented Database Management Systems(OODBMS) are clustering and buffer replacement. Clustering is the placement of o...
This article describes a new model of probability density function and its use in estimation of distribution algorithms. The new model, the distribution tree, has interesting prope...
Fitness functions based on test cases are very common in Genetic Programming (GP). This process can be assimilated to a learning task, with the inference of models from a limited n...
In this paper, Simulated Evolution based goodness attributes are incorporated into Tabu Search and Genetic Algorithms to enhance performance as compared to canonical strategies. I...
Sadiq M. Sait, Mohammed Faheemuddin, Mustafa I. Al...