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TPDS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Managing the Mobility of a Mobile Sensor Network Using Network Dynamics
It has been discussed in the literature that the mobility of a mobile sensor network (MSN) can be used to improve its sensing coverage. How the mobility can efficiently be managed ...
Ke Ma, Yanyong Zhang, Wade Trappe
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A smart hill-climbing algorithm for application server configuration
The overwhelming success of the Web as a mechanism for facilitating information retrieval and for conducting business transactions has led to an increase in the deployment of comp...
Bowei Xi, Zhen Liu, Mukund Raghavachari, Cathy H. ...
JMLR
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
A Quasi-Newton Approach to Nonsmooth Convex Optimization Problems in Machine Learning
We extend the well-known BFGS quasi-Newton method and its memory-limited variant LBFGS to the optimization of nonsmooth convex objectives. This is done in a rigorous fashion by ge...
Jin Yu, S. V. N. Vishwanathan, Simon Günter, ...
CDC
2008
IEEE
139views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Iterative Risk Allocation: A new approach to robust Model Predictive Control with a joint chance constraint
Abstract— This paper proposes a novel two-stage optimization method for robust Model Predictive Control (RMPC) with Gaussian disturbance and state estimation error. Since the dis...
Masahiro Ono, Brian C. Williams
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Adapting ranking SVM to document retrieval
The paper is concerned with applying learning to rank to document retrieval. Ranking SVM is a typical method of learning to rank. We point out that there are two factors one must ...
Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Yalou Hua...