Timetabling the courses offered at the Computer Science Department of the University of Munich requires the processing of hard and soft constraints. Hard constraints are conditions that must be satisfied, soft constraints, however, may be violated, but should be satisfied as much as possible. This paper shows how to model our timetabling problem as a partial constraint satisfaction problem and ...

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A free-electron laser consists of an electron beam propagating through a periodic magnetic field. Today such lasers are used for research in materials science, chemical technology, biophysical science, medical applications, surface studies, and solid-state physics. Free-electron lasers with higher average power and shorter wavelengths are under development. Future applications range from indust...

Key Laboratory of Soft Chemistry and Functional Materials of Education Ministry, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China Applied Opti...

Some clinicians still believe that qualitative research is a “soft” science and of lesser value to clinical decision making, but this position is no longer tenable.2-4 A quick search using the key word qualitative on the Canadian Family Physician website generated more than 100 qualitative research articles published in the past 3 years alone. This paper provides an overview of the history of s...

Tsvi Tlusty,1, 2, 3 Albert Libchaber,4 and Jean-Pierre Eckmann5 Center for Soft and Living Matter, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Ulsan 44919, Korea Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Korea Simons Center for Systems Biology, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New Yo...

Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Optical Information, Ministry of Education, Beijing Jiaotong University, 100044 Beijing, People’s Republic of China Department of Material Science and Technology, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Materials, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, 1 Jinji Road, 541004 Guilin, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China Key Laboratory of Soft Chemistry and Func...

AbstractWe explore competitive Hebbian learning strategies to train feature detectors in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), without supervision. We consider variants of the Winner-Takes-All (WTA) strategy explored previous works, i.e. k-WTA, e-soft-WTA and p-soft-WTA, performing experiments on different object recognition datasets. Results suggest that approaches are effective early extracti...