Abstract. Flexibility and automatic learning are key aspects to support users in dynamic business environments such as value chains across SMEs or when organizing a large event. Pr...
One of the main shortcomings of Markov chain Monte Carlo samplers is their inability to mix between modes of the target distribution. In this paper we show that advance knowledge ...
Question and answer pairs in Community Question Answering (CQA) services are organized into hierarchical structures or taxonomies to facilitate users to find the answers for thei...
—Over the last two decades, many Differential Evolution (DE) strategies have been introduced for solving Optimization Problems. Due to the variability of the characteristics in o...
This paper introduces an improved evolutionary algorithm based on the Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA), called Quad Countries Algorithm (QCA). The Imperialist Competitive Al...
M. A. Soltani-Sarvestani, Shahriar Lotfi, Fatemeh ...