Relevant Component Analysis has been introduced recently as a way to incorporate a priori information, such as class or preference information, that may exist for a given data set. The method uses this information to define a new Mahalanobis distance metric on the data space. The purpose of the...

In this paper the well-known p-median problem is tackled using a version of a heuristic bee algorithm. The proposed bee algorithm is explained and applied to eight different data sets. The results obtained are then compared to a classical, but effective, heuristic algorithm called the vertex...