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initialize

[i′nish·ə‚līz]
(computer science)
To set counters, switches, and addresses to zero or other starting values at the beginning of, or at prescribed points in, a computer routine.
To begin an operation, and more specifically, to adjust the environment to the required starting configuration.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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In this section, we introduce a modified MM-NcO with improved initialization by exploiting prior information of both support and amplitude of the sparse signal.
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(3) In the initialization space acquired in step 2, randomly initiate a swarm of particles [mathematical expression not reproducible] whose position might be the potential solution to the optimization problem.
In proposed method a k-means++ initialization algorithm is developed in the situation with a very large amount of data by virtue of MapReduce.
The vortex initialization problem can be viewed as follows: given the data sets of (u, v, p, T, q, etc.) from global analysis data (e.g., FNL and GFS (global forecast system) data), how can we correct them to new data ([u.sup.*], [v.sup.*], [p.sup.*], [T.sup.*], [q.sup.*], etc.)?
(ii) Greedy initialization: the initial Team Plan is created using a greedy approach to form feasible starting subtours.
For continence and computation simplicity, random parameter initialization is done and algorithm is started from the E-Step first, computing weight vector from randomly initialized parameters.
Therefore, random initialization of SLFN hidden node parameters may have effect on the modeling performances [3], and to improve the SLFN it requires high complexity performance and this may lead to ill condition, which means that an ELM may not be robust enough to capture variations in data [4].
(i) In order to highlight the drawbacks of employing existing nonadaptive network initialization protocols in dense wireless sensor networks with unknown topology through comprehensive performance evaluations, we propose an Adaptive Network Initialization protocol with Single Beaconing approach (ANI-SB) which integrates the initial neighbor search with a link quality estimation technique.

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