There are several kinds of non-invasive imaging methods that are used to collect data from the brain, e.g., EEG, MEG, PET, SPECT, fMRI, etc. It is difficult to get resolution of information processing using any one of these methods. Approaches to integrate data sources may help to get better resolution of data and better correlations to behavioral phenomena ranging from attention to diagnoses o...

Adaptive simulated annealing (ASA) is a global optimization algorithm based on an associated proof that the parameter space can be sampled much more efficiently than by using other previous simulated annealing algorithms. The author’s ASA code has been publicly available for over two years. During this time the author has volunteered to help people via e-mail, and the feedback obtained has been...

This paper presents a novel approach to the detection and recognition of qualitative parts like geons from real 2D intensity images. Previous works relied on semi-local properties of either line drawings or good region segmentation. Here, in the framework of Model-Based Optimisation, whole geons or substantial sub-parts are recognised by tting parametric deformable contour models to the edge im...

Annealing of general iterative stochastic schemes is studied by using Wentzell’s large deviation theory. The convergence of this algorithm is shown under some conditions. The closed form of the critical constant is specified in terms of its potential function of the mean model.

The density of optical glass varies from 2.39 for N-BK10 to 6.03 for SF66. In most cases glasses with higher densities also have higher refractive indices (e.g. SF type glasses). The density is mainly determined by the chemical composition of the glass. To a small amount the density is influenced by the annealing conditions of the glass near the transformation temperature. Due to the thermal ex...

Multilayer sputtering of SmFe/C(Al) plus appropriate thermal processing has been used to fabricate SmFeC thin films with A1 substitution for Fe. It was found that the SmFeAlC thin films exhibited exceptionally high Coercivities. A coercivity of 28 kOe was realized for the thin film with structure of Ta( l000~) / lSmFe(40~~/ G(Al)(5,&)]~50/Ta(200@ with subsequent annealing at 650°C.

Describes adaptation of simulated annealing to solve short playfair ciphers (80–120 letters) without using a probable word.

We used the so-called deterministic annealing algorithm due to Rose and Gurewitz by the classification of patent documents. A C++ program based on this algorithm was run first on some artificially constructed data and the results were good. Then we tested it on data sets obtained from some already classified patents. The conclusion we reached is that this algorithm provides an alternative class...