Data compression algorithms have been widely used in many areas to meet the demand of storage and transfer of large size data. Most of the data compression algorithms regard the input as a sequence of binary numbers and represent the compressed data also as a binary sequence. However, in many areas such as programming languages (e.g. LISP and C) and compiler design, it is more desirable to have...

When measurements of values that are less than the limit of detection are reported as not detected, the data are referred to as censored. The non-recording of values below the limit of detection is common in soil science research although modelling data affected by censoring can be problematic. This paper develops and tests a modified version of Spatial Simulated Annealing, called Simulated Ann...

This work was conducted at the Psychology Research Center (PSI/01662), School of Psychology, University Minho, and partially supported by Portuguese Foundation for Science Technology Ministry Science, Higher Education (UID/PSI/01662/2019), through national funds (PIDDAC), a grant co-financed FEDER COMPETE2020 under PT2020 Partnership Agreement (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028145) to PM. Eva Conceição fi...