The master thief

The Thief in the Mirror

Primer T he Eurasian magpie (Pica pica) has a poor reputation. As a child, I learned never to leave small shiny objects, such as teaspoons, unattended outdoors as these raucous birds will steal anything they can put their beaks on. This folklore even inspired a Rossini opera, " La gazza ladra " (" The Thieving Magpie "). Nowadays, this view has been replaced with one that is more sensitive to e...

To Catch a Thief

To catch a thief, spy, money launderer, insider trader, tax evader, narcotics trafficker or anyone exhibiting patterns of "noncompliant" behavior can be effectively performed using a combination of strategic (proactive) and tactical (reactive) analytical techniques. The exact definition of a noncompliant pattern will vary according to the activities occurring within the domain for which it is b...

Glaucoma: Silent Thief of Sight

Exact Approaches for the Travelling Thief Problem

Many evolutionary and constructive heuristic approaches have been introduced in order to solve the Traveling Thief Problem (TTP). However, the accuracy of such approaches is unknown due to their inability to find global optima. In this paper, we propose three exact algorithms and a hybrid approach to the TTP. We compare these with state-of-theart approaches to gather a comprehensive overview on...

Glaucoma: the silent thief of sight.

Glaucoma damages vision by destroying the optic nerve, which connects your eye to your brain, and carries visual information to your brain for processing. When the optic nerve is damaged from glaucoma, you lose your vision. Your peripheral vision—or side vision—is lost first. If the glaucoma remains untreated, the vision loss creeps in toward the center, first causing tunnel vision, and then, e...