Background: Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is a novel tumor ablation technique. IRE is associated with high electrical fields and is often reported in conjunction with thermal damage caused by Joule heating. For good response to surgery it is crucial to produce minimum thermal damage in both tumoral and healthy tissues named Non-Thermal Irreversible Electroporation(NTIRE). Non-thermal irrev...

This work presents a performance analysis of a Multi-Branches Genetic Programming (MBGP) approach applied in symbolic regression (e.g. function approximation) problems. Genetic Programming (GP) has been previously applied to this kind of regression. However, one of the main drawbacks of GP is the fact that individuals tend to grow in size through the evolution process without a significant impr...

Visual analytics is a human-machine collaboration to data modeling where extraction of the most informative features plays an important role. Although feature extraction is a multi-objective task, the traditional algorithms either only consider one objective or aggregate the objectives into one scalar criterion to optimize. In this paper, we propose a Pareto-based multi-objective approach to fe...

INTRODUCTION The multiple-instance problem is a difficult machine learning problem that appears in cases where knowledge about training examples is incomplete. In this problem, the teacher labels examples that are sets (also called bags) of instances. The teacher does not label whether an individual instance in a bag is positive or negative. The learning algorithm needs to generate a classifier...

Multi-criterion tabu programming is a new approach for a decision making support and it can be applied to determine the Pareto solutions. Similarly to rules applied in the genetic programming, tabu programming solves problems by using a general solver that is based on a tabu algorithm. In the formulated task assignment problem as a multi-criterion question, both a workload of a bottleneck compu...

‎this paper proposes a multi-supplier multi-product inventory model in which the suppliers have unlimited production capacity, allow delayed payment, and offer either an all-unit or incremental discount. the retailer can delay payment until after they have sold all the units of the purchased product. the retailer’s warehouse is limited, but the surplus can be stored in a rented warehouse at a...