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Sequential search methods characterized by a dynamically changing number of features included or eliminated at each step, henceforth "floating" methods, are presented. They are shown to give very good results and to be computationally more effective than the branch and bound method.

An analog system-on-chip for kernel-based pattern classification and sequence estimation is presented. State transition probabilities conditioned on input data are generated by an integrated support vector machine. Dot product based kernels and support vector coefficients are implemented in analog programmable floating gate translinear circuits, and probabilities are propagated and normalized u...

The IEEE standards 754 and 854 for floating-point arithmetic have been under revision for some time. The work is pushed forward by the Floating-Point Working Group (ca. 100 scientists) of the Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society. The group meets monthly near Palo Alto/San Jose in California. At present Dec. 2006 is the deadline for the new standard. The author has tried to influence...

Motivated by applications in combinatorial group testing for consecutive positives, we investigate a block sequence of a maximum packing MP(t, k, v) which contains the blocks exactly once such that the collection of all blocks together with all unions of two consecutive blocks of this sequence forms an error correcting code with minimum distance d. Such a sequence is usually called a block sequ...

This paper proposes a new way of using forward selection of explanatory variables in regression or canonical redundancy analysis. The classical forward selection method presents two problems: a highly inflated Type I error and an overestimation of the amount of explained variance. Correcting these problems will greatly improve the performance of this very useful method in ecological modeling. T...

Introduction: Epileptic seizure detection is a key step for both researchers and epilepsy specialists for epilepsy assessment due to the non-stationariness and chaos in the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. Current research is directed toward the development of an efficient method for epilepsy or seizure detection based the limited penetrable visibility graph (LPVG) algorith...

Neurodegenerative diseases are frequently associated with structural changes in the brain. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans can show these variations and therefore can be used as a supportive feature for a number of neurodegenerative diseases. The hippocampus has been known to be a biomarker for Alzheimer disease and other neurological and psychiatric diseases. However, it requires accura...