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TIT
2011
13 years 5 days ago
2011
: In this paper, a novel approach to the problem of estimating the heavy–tail exponent α > 0 of a distribution is proposed. It is based on the fact that block–maxima of siz...
TON
2010
12 years 12 months ago
2010
Abstract--After the seminal work by Taqqu et al. relating selfsimilarity to heavy-tailed distributions, a number of research articles verified that aggregated Internet traffic time...
CVPR
2004
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2004
IEEE
In many computer vision algorithms, the well known Euclidean or SSD (sum of the squared differences) metric is prevalent and justified from a maximum likelihood perspective when t...
GECCO
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Real-world multi-objective engineering design optimization problems often have parameters with uncontrollable variations. The aim of solving such problems is to obtain solutions t...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Background: Protein structure comparison is a central issue in structural bioinformatics. The standard dissimilarity measure for protein structures is the root mean square deviati...