In this paper, we introduce the definitions of Böhm-like trees and Böhm trees, and give a sufficient and necessary condition for the convergence of Böhm-like trees. It is shown that a Böhm-like tre...
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Scenario-based specifications (SBSs), such as UML interaction models, offer an intuitive and visual way of describing design requirements, and are playing an increasingly important role in the design of software syste...
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The large volume principle proposed by Vladimir Vapnik, which advocates that hypotheses lying in an equivalence class with a larger volume are more preferable, is a useful alternative to the large margin principle. In...
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The large volume principle proposed by Vladimir Vapnik, which advocates that hypotheses lying in an equivalence class with a larger volume are more preferable, is a useful alternative to the large margin principle. In this paper, we introduce a new discriminative clustering model based on the large volume principle called maximum volume clustering (MVC), and then propose two approximation schemes to solve this MVC model: A soft-label MVC method using sequential quadratic programming and a hard-label MVC method using semi-definite programming, respectively. The proposed MVC is theoretically advantageous for three reasons. The optimization involved in hard-label MVC is convex, and under mild conditions, the optimization involved in soft-label MVC is akin to a convex one in terms of the resulting clusters. Secondly, the soft-label MVC method possesses a clustering error bound. Thirdly, MVC includes the optimization problems of a spectral clustering, two relaxed k-means clustering and an information-maximization clustering as special limit cases when its regularization parameter goes to infinity. Experiments on several artificial and benchmark data sets demonstrate that the proposed MVC compares favorably with state-of-the-art clustering methods.
Semi-supervised learning attracts much concern because it can improve classification performance by using unlabeled examples. A novel semi-supervised classification algorithm SsL-ARC is proposed for real-time vehicle ...
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Accurate 3-D prostate segmentation is a significant and challenging issue for CT image guided radiotherapy. In this paper, a novel transductive method for 3-D prostate segmentation is proposed, which incorporates the ...
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Aspect-oriented programming yields new types of programming faults due to the introduction of new constructs for dealing with crosscutting concerns. To reveal aspect faults, this paper presents a framework for testing...
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Evolutionary computation (EC) is one of the fastest growing areas in computerscience that solves intractable optimization problems by emulating biologic evolution and organizational behaviors in nature. To de- sign...
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Evolutionary computation (EC) is one of the fastest growing areas in computerscience that solves intractable optimization problems by emulating biologic evolution and organizational behaviors in nature. To de- sign an EC algorithm, one needs to determine a set of algorithmic configurations like operator selections and parameter settings. How to design an effective and ef- ficient adaptation scheme for adjusting the configura- tions of EC algorithms has become a significant and promising research topic in the EC research community. This paper intends to provide a comprehensive survey on this rapidly growing field. We present a classification of adaptive EC (AEC) algorithms from the perspective of how an adaptation scheme is designed, involving the adaptation objects, adaptation evidences, and adapta- tion methods. In particular, by analyzing tile popula- tion distribution characteristics of EC algorithms, we discuss why and how the evolutionary state information of EC can be estimated and utilized for designing ef- fective EC adaptation schemes. Two AEC algorithms using the idea of evolutionary state estimation, includ- ing the clustering-based adaptive genetic algorithm and the adaptive particle swarm optimization algorithm are presented in detail. Some potential directions for the re- search of AECs are also discussed in this paper.
The equivalence property of vector dual norms is shown by introducing the definition of dual norm and the equivalence of vector norms. Basing on arbitrary norm projection on a plane, the equivalence property of max ma...
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To improve the accuracy of plant leaf area, a new measurement method of plant leaf area based on Snake model was adopted in this study. In this paper, we captured leaf counter with improved Snake model, built up 8-dir...
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Mutation analysis is widely employed to evaluate the effectiveness of various software testing techniques. In most situations, mutation operators are uniformly applied to the original programs, while the faults tend t...
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