In this document, we present the supplemental materials for the paper “New Insights Into Diversification of HyperHeuristics”. More specifically, the document consists of 4 sections. In Section I, we present the complete results of the sensitivity analysis, for the Low Level Heuristic (LLH) parameters. In Section II, the numerical results for both HIP-HOP (recursive acronym of “HIP-HOP is an Ins...

This Letter presents a new image encryption scheme, which employs an image total shuffling matrix to shuffle the positions of image pixels and then uses a hyper-chaotic system to confuse the relationship between the plain-image and the cipher-image. The experimental results demonstrate that the suggested encryption algorithm of image has the advantages of large key space and high security, and ...

This paper presents a novel compact design for a two degrees of freedom (DOF) joint mechanism. The joint is optimized for compactness, strength and range of motion which makes it ideal for constructing spatial or three-dimensional hyper redundant robots. We also identify and classify various prior joint designs that led to the development of this new concept. Finally, we present the joint forwa...

We often identify people using face images. This is true in occupational settings such as passport control as well as in everyday social environments. Mapping between images and identities assumes that facial appearance is stable within certain bounds. For example, a person's apparent age, gender and ethnicity change slowly, if at all. It also assumes that deliberate changes beyond these bounds...

This paper is devoted to the characterization of hyper-bent functions. Several classes of hyper-bent functions have been studied, such as Charpin and Gong’s ∑ r∈R Tr1 (arx r(2m−1)) and Mesnager’s ∑ r∈R Tr1 (arx r(2m−1)) + Tr1(bx 2n−1 3 ), where R is a set of representations of the cyclotomic cosets modulo 2 + 1 of full size n and ar ∈ F2m . In this paper, we generalize their results and conside...

BACKGROUND We highlight a chronic inflammatory disease we call 'hyper-IgG4 disease', which has many synonyms depending on the organ involved, the country of origin and the year of the report. It is characterized histologically by a lymphoplasmacytic inflammation with IgG4-positive cells and exuberant fibrosis, which leaves dense fibrosis on resolution. A typical example is idiopathic retroperit...

Let S be a bipartite semigraph with |NXa(y)| ≥ 1 for every y ∈ Y . A vertex x ∈ X hyper dominates y ∈ Y if y ∈ Na(x) or y ∈ Na(NY a(x)). A subsetD ⊆ X is a hyper dominating set of S if every y ∈ Y is hyper dominated by a vertex ofD. A subsetD ⊆ X is called a minimal hyper dominating set of S if no proper subset of D is a hyper dominating set of S. The minimum cardinality of a minimal hyper domi...

Following the approach to pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces developed in [KO2] we exhibit examples of indefinite hyper-Kähler symmetric spaces with non-abelian holonomy. Moreover, we classify indecomposable hyper-Kähler symmetric spaces whose metric has signature (4, 4n). Such spaces exist if and only if n ∈ {0, 1, 3}.

T he autistic spectrum comprises four subgroups: Asperger’s syndrome (AS), 2 and high, medium, and low functioning autism. They all share the phenotype of social difficulties and obsessional interests. In AS, the individual has normal or above average IQ and no language delay. In the three autism subgroups there is invariably some degree of language delay, and the level of functioning is indexe...

In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement exercised considerable influence over domestic US public policy. Positive eugenics encouraged the reproduction of “fit” human specimens while negative eugenics attempted to reduce the reproduction of “unfit” specimens like the “feebleminded” and the criminal. Although eugenics became a taboo concept after World War II, it did not disappear. ...