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The Value of Knowing that You Do Not Know

Greenstein, Gil, Ahituv, Niv (2009)

Serdica Journal of Computing

The value of knowing about data availability and system accessibility is analyzed through theoretical models of Information Economics. When a user places an inquiry for information, it is important for the user to learn whether the system is not accessible or the data is not available, rather than not have any response. In reality, various outcomes can be provided by the system: nothing will be displayed to the user (e.g., a traffic light that does not operate, a browser that keeps browsing, a telephone...

Theoretical analysis of steady state genetic algorithms

Alexandru Agapie, Alden H. Wright (2014)

Applications of Mathematics

Evolutionary Algorithms, also known as Genetic Algorithms in a former terminology, are probabilistic algorithms for optimization, which mimic operators from natural selection and genetics. The paper analyses the convergence of the heuristic associated to a special type of Genetic Algorithm, namely the Steady State Genetic Algorithm (SSGA), considered as a discrete-time dynamical system non-generational model. Inspired by the Markov chain results in finite Evolutionary Algorithms, conditions are...

Theory of classification : a survey of some recent advances

Stéphane Boucheron, Olivier Bousquet, Gábor Lugosi (2005)

ESAIM: Probability and Statistics

The last few years have witnessed important new developments in the theory and practice of pattern classification. We intend to survey some of the main new ideas that have led to these recent results.

Theory of Classification: a Survey of Some Recent Advances

Stéphane Boucheron, Olivier Bousquet, Gábor Lugosi (2010)

ESAIM: Probability and Statistics

The last few years have witnessed important new developments in the theory and practice of pattern classification. We intend to survey some of the main new ideas that have led to these recent results.

Three tabu search methods for the MI-FAP applied to 802.11 networks

Sacha Varone, Nicolas Zufferey (2008)

RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle

Wireless LAN using IEEE 802.11 networks are now widely deployed at home by residential users or in hot spots by telecommunication operators. A hot spot is a place where a set of access points (APs) are located nearby each other and can serve many users. Since perturbations can degrade the quality of the signal, a careful channel assignment to each AP has to be done. Channel assignment of APs at hot spots, and more generally setup configuration and management, is still often done manually. In this...

Three tabu search methods for the MI-FAP applied to 802.11 networks

Sacha Varone, Nicolas Zufferey (2009)

RAIRO - Operations Research

Wireless LAN using IEEE 802.11 networks are now widely deployed at home by residential users or in hot spots by telecommunication operators. A hot spot is a place where a set of access points (APs) are located nearby each other and can serve many users. Since perturbations can degrade the quality of the signal, a careful channel assignment to each AP has to be done. Channel assignment of APs at hot spots, and more generally setup configuration and management, is still often done manually. In this...

Time–dependent Simple Temporal Networks: Properties and Algorithms

Cédric Pralet, Gérard Verfaillie (2013)

RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle

Simple Temporal Networks (STN) allow conjunctions of minimum and maximum distance constraints between pairs of temporal positions to be represented. This paper introduces an extension of STN called Time–dependent STN (TSTN), which covers temporal constraints for which the minimum and maximum distances required between two temporal positions x and y are not necessarily constant but may depend on the assignments of x and y. Such constraints are useful to model problems in which the duration of an...

Topological complexity of motion planning and Massey products

Mark Grant (2009)

Banach Center Publications

We employ Massey products to find sharper lower bounds for the Schwarz genus of a fibration than those previously known. In particular we give examples of non-formal spaces X for which the topological complexity TC(X) (defined to be the genus of the free path fibration on X) is greater than the zero-divisors cup-length plus one.

Topological Interpretation of Rough Sets

Adam Grabowski (2014)

Formalized Mathematics

Rough sets, developed by Pawlak, are an important model of incomplete or partially known information. In this article, which is essentially a continuation of [11], we characterize rough sets in terms of topological closure and interior, as the approximations have the properties of the Kuratowski operators. We decided to merge topological spaces with tolerance approximation spaces. As a testbed for our developed approach, we restated the results of Isomichi [13] (formalized in Mizar in [14]) and...

Totally coherent set-valued probability assessments

Angelo Gilio, Salvatore Ingrassia (1998)

Kybernetika

We introduce the concept of total coherence of a set-valued probability assessment on a family of conditional events. In particular we give sufficient and necessary conditions of total coherence in the case of interval-valued probability assessments. Some relevant cases in which the set-valued probability assessment is represented by the unitary hypercube are also considered.

Towards a linguistic description of dependencies in data

Ildar Batyrshin, Michael Wagenknecht (2002)

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

The problem of a linguistic description of dependencies in data by a set of rules R_k: “If X is T_k then Y is S_k” is considered, where T_k’s are linguistic terms like SMALL, BETWEEN 5 AND 7 describing some fuzzy intervals A_k. S_k’s are linguistic terms like DECREASING and QUICKLY INCREASING describing the slopes p_k of linear functions y_k = p_{k}x + q_k approximating data on A_k. The decision of this problem is obtained as a result of a fuzzy partition of the domain X on fuzzy intervals A_k,...

Towards a logic of semiotic systems

Constantin Thiopoulos (1992)

Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines

The rationalistic denotational approach to semantics is not adequate for capturing the structural dimension of meaning, which is immanent in semiotic systems. The demand for a structural approach to semantics is intensified by a turn in Artificial Intelligence, introduced by Connectionism and Information Retrieval. This paper presents such a structural approach to semantics founded on the phenomenological and autopoietic paradigms and proposes a formalization with the help of category theory.

Towards a theory of practice in metaheuristics design: A machine learning perspective

Mauro Birattari, Mark Zlochin, Marco Dorigo (2006)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

A number of methodological papers published during the last years testify that a need for a thorough revision of the research methodology is felt by the operations research community – see, for example, [Barr et al., J. Heuristics1 (1995) 9–32; Eiben and Jelasity, Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2002) 582–587; Hooker, J. Heuristics1 (1995) 33–42; Rardin and Uzsoy, J. Heuristics7 (2001) 261–304]. In particular, the performance evaluation of nondeterministic methods,...

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