Self-paced learning (SPL) is a recently proposed learning regime inspired by the learning process of humans and animals that gradually incorporates easy to more complex samples into training. Existing methods are limited in that they ignore an important aspect in learning: diversity. To incorporate this information, we propose an approach called self-paced learning with diversity (SPLD) which f...

This paper provides a short and transparent solution for the covering cost of white–grey trees which play a crucial role in the algorithm of Bergeron et al. to compute the rearrangement distance between two multichromosomal genomes in linear time (Theor. Comput. Sci., 410:5300– 5316, 2009). In the process it introduces a new center notion for trees, which seems to be interesting on its own.

In this paper we show a polynomial-time algorithm to find the best rational approximation of a given rational number within a given interval. As a special case, we show how to find the best rational number that after evaluating and rounding exactly matches the input number. In both results, “best” means “having the smallest possible denominator”.

No P-immune set having exponential gaps is positive-Turing self-reducible.

We introduce a real-time character animation system which is currently used in an augmented reality environment for the fast creation of simple character behaviour. By placing and manipulating commands on a timeline, the overall choreography of the characters’ movement is created. The movement of the character is controlled by subtasks which model reactive behaviour and control the dynamic moti...

The effect of a precue on improving movement initiation (i.e., reaction time; RT) is well understood, whereas its influence on movement execution (i.e., movement time; MT) has rarely been examined. The current study investigated the influence of a directional precue (i.e., left vs. right) on the RT and MT of simple and discrete bi-directional movements in a large sample of Parkinson's disease p...