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CPHYSICS
2006
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MinFinder: Locating all the local minima of a function
A new stochastic clustering algorithm is introduced that aims to locate all the local minima of a multidimensional continuous and differentiable function inside a bounded domain. ...
Ioannis G. Tsoulos, Isaac E. Lagaris
CGF
1998
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15 years 6 months ago
Using Wavefront Tracing for the Visualization and Optimization of Progressive Lenses
Progressive addition lenses are a relatively new approach to compensate for defects of the human visual system. While traditional spectacles use rotationally symmetric lenses, pro...
Joachim Loos, Philipp Slusallek, Hans-Peter Seidel
AAAI
1998
15 years 7 months ago
Fast Probabilistic Modeling for Combinatorial Optimization
Probabilistic models have recently been utilized for the optimization of large combinatorial search problems. However, complex probabilistic models that attempt to capture interpa...
Shumeet Baluja, Scott Davies
PAMI
2011
15 years 1 months ago
Approximately Global Optimization for Robust Alignment of Generalized Shapes
—In this paper, we introduce a novel method to solve shape alignment problems. We use gray-scale “images” to represent source shapes, and propose a novel two-component Gaussi...
Hongsheng Li, Tian Shen, Xiaolei Huang
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EDBT
2010
ACM
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16 years 1 months ago
Optimizing joins in a map-reduce environment
Implementations of map-reduce are being used to perform many operations on very large data. We examine strategies for joining several relations in the map-reduce environment. Our ...
Foto N. Afrati, Jeffrey D. Ullman