Tuning an algorithm’s parameters for robust and high performance is a tedious and time-consuming task that often requires knowledge about both the domain and the algorithm of interest. Furthermore, the optimal parameter configuration to use may differ considerably across problem instances. In this report, we define and tackle the algorithm configuration problem, which is to automatically choose...

Elicitation is a commonly used tool to extract viable information from experts. The information that is held by the expert is extracted and a probabilistic representation of this knowledge is constructed. A promising avenue in psychological research is to incorporated experts' prior knowledge in the statistical analysis. Systematic reviews on elicitation literature however suggest that it might...

Carrier sense multiple access with enhanced collision avoidance (CSMA/ECA) is a distributed MAC protocol that allows collisionfree access to the medium in WLANs. The only difference between CSMA/ECA and the well-known CSMA/CA is that the former uses a deterministic backoff after successful transmissions. Collision-free operation is reached after a transient state during which some collisions ma...

In this work, a powerful parametric spectral estimation technique, 2D-auto regressive moving average modeling (ARMA), has been applied to contrast transfer function (CTF) detection in electron microscopy. Parametric techniques such as auto regressive (AR) and ARMA models allow a more exact determination of the CTF than traditional methods based only on the Fourier transform of the complete imag...

An adjustment scheme for the regularization parameter of a Moreau-Yosida-based regularization, or relaxation, approach to the numerical solution of pointwise state constrained elliptic optimal control problems is introduced. The method utilizes error estimates of an associated finite element discretization of the regularized problems for the optimal selection of the regularization parameter in ...

In this paper based on the physical rules, thermodynamics principles and energy mass balance, the simulation models are developed and applied to electrical power generating plants in order to characterize the essential dynamic behavior of the boiler subsystems and to use the corresponding models for the power plant processes. These models are developed for a sub-critical once through Benson typ...

In this paper the two-level Hierarchical Covering Location Problem HCLP is considered. A new genetic algorithm for that problem is developed, including specific binary encoding with the new crossover and mutation operators that keep the feasibility of individuals. Modification that resolves the problem of frozen bits in genetic code is proposed and tested. Version of fine-grained tournament [5]...

The objectives of this study were to estimate the genetic parameters for milk yield unadjusted and adjusted for days in milk and, subsequently, to assess the influence of adjusting for days in milk on sire rank. Complete lactations from 90 or 150 days of lactation to 270 or 350 days in milk were considered in these analyses. Milk yield was adjusted for days in milk by multiplicative correction ...

How well parameterization will improve gross primary production (GPP) estimation using the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) algorithm has been rarely investigated. We adjusted the parameters in the algorithm for 21 selected eddy-covariance flux towers which represented nine typical plant functional types (PFTs). We then compared these estimates of the MOD17A2 product, by th...

Firefly algorithm (FA) is a new swarm intelligence optimization algorithm, which has shown an effective performance on many optimization problems. However, it may suffer from premature convergence when solving complex optimization problems. In this paper, we propose a new FA variant, called NSRaFA, which employs a random attractionmodel and three neighborhood search strategies to obtain a trade...