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This paper applies genetic optimization with an adaptive penalty function to the shapeconstrained unequal area facility layout problem. We implement a genetic search for unequal area facility layout, and show how optimal solutions are affected by constraints on permitted department shapes, as specified by a maximum allowable aspect ratio for each department. We show how an adaptive penalty func...

Image metamorphosis, commonly known as morphing, is a powerful tool for visual effects that consists of the fluid transformation of one digital image into another. There are many techniques for image metamorphosis, but in all of them there is a need for a person to supply the correspondence between the features in the source image and target image. In this paper we describe a method to perform ...

1: procedure CC-CMA-ES(dim, subN um, lambda, ub, lb, maxF Es) 2: pop(1 : 200, 1 : dim) ← random population 3: (best, best val) ← evaluate(pop) 4: f es ← 200 5: C ← dim × dim unit matrix 6: xw ← dim × 1 random vector 7: σ ← (ub − lb) ÷ 2 8: historyW indow ← 5 9: perf ormanceRecord ← ones(3, historyW indow) 10: while f es < maxF Es do 11: (subInf o, decomposerID) ← adaptiveDecompose(dim, subN um,...

Machines are good at handling huge amounts of data, but they lack the fl exibility and sensitivity of human perception when making decisions or observations. To understand human perception, we look toward what defi nes being human. To sense, observe, and make sense of the world around us, we combine our biological receptors (eyes, ears, etc.) with our cognitive faculties (memory, emotion, etc.)...

An accurate comparison of inter-individual 3D image datasets of brains requires warping techniques to reduce geometric variations. In this study we use a point-based method of warping with weighted sums of displacement vectors, which is extended by an optimization process. To improve the practicability of 3D warping, we investigate fast automatic procedures for determining landmarks. The combin...

This paper de nes and addresses the competence and capability assess ment problem A simple method based on the meta knowledge available in a reasoning system is given that can be used to assess competence This idea is applied to the planner ucpop to assess capability in the Blocks World domain Several theoretical and practical problems lead to some experiments that involve generating partial se...

In this work we present Evolution Strategies (ES) as an efficient optimization method for dynamic modelling of the main interacting group of three galaxies in M81. The M81 group is one of the nearest groups of galaxies; its biggest galaxy, M81, sits in the core of the group together with its two companions M82 and NGC3077. The interaction among these three galaxies is very well defined in an im...

Boosting has established itself as a successful technique for decreasing the generalization error of classification learners by basing predictions on ensembles of hypotheses. While previous research has shown that this technique can be made to work efficiently even in the context of multirelational learning by using simple learners and active feature selection, such approaches have relied on si...

Article history: Received 14 November 2005 Received in revised form 24 April 2006 Accepted 26 May 2006 Available online 31 July 2006 Classic rangeland theory advocates stocking rangelands at relatively lowand constant levels. This theory has been labelled inappropriate for savanna rangelands, because savannas are strongly influenced by stochastic processes. Opportunistic strategies that force a...