The problem of sinusoidal frequency estimation in heavy-tailed noise environment is addressed. A method based on the robust M -periodogram is proposed. Specifically, a suboptimal coarse frequency estimate provided by the robust M -periodogram is improved using the modified dichotomous search. Simulations that consider most common heavytailed noise models demonstrate that the proposed method out...

Dichotomous thinking is a propensity for individuals to understand events as opposites, in binary way. There are currently two inventories that accurately measure this construct, the Thinking Inventory, and Eating Disorders Scale. The present study aimed carry out review process compile all empirical studies have made use of either these instruments. To achieve goal, we carried scoping review. ...

In this paper, the three-dimensional sphere packing problem is solved by using a dichotomous search-based heuristic. An instance of the problem is defined by a set of n unequal spheres and an object of fixed width and height and, unlimited length. Each sphere is characterized by its radius and the aim of the problem is to optimize the length of the object containing all spheres without overlapp...

In Distributed CSPs (DisCSPs), agents may want to keep parts of their problem secret but accept to cooperate by exchanging proposals. Asynchronism in solving DisCSPs [1] increases flexibility, parallelism, and robustness. Enumerative algorithms apply for discrete problems with small domains. Our goal is to develop asynchronous algorithms that can deal with numeric constraints. Centralized techn...

this paper defines how a meta heuristic search engine called p.s.o can be used to maximize the objective function of a logistic regression model, describing the relationship between the response variable (product designs' score) and a set of explanatory variables (product design factors). at the first phase the processed data, classified and categorized, by kansie engineering is used as input t...