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ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Learning Distance Functions using Equivalence Relations
We address the problem of learning distance metrics using side-information in the form of groups of "similar" points. We propose to use the RCA algorithm, which is a sim...
Aharon Bar-Hillel, Tomer Hertz, Noam Shental, Daph...
IFIP
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Multi-Stage Stochastic Electricity Portfolio Optimization in Liberalized Energy Markets
In this paper we analyze the electricity portfolio problem of a big consumer in a multi-stage stochastic programming framework. Stochasticity enters the model via the uncertain spo...
Ronald Hochreiter, Georg Ch. Pflug, David Wozabal
BMCBI
2005
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13 years 4 months ago
ProfNet, a method to derive profile-profile alignment scoring functions that improves the alignments of distantly related protei
Background: Profile-profile methods have been used for some years now to detect and align homologous proteins. The best such methods use information from the background distributi...
Tomas Ohlson, Arne Elofsson
PODS
2001
ACM
127views Database» more  PODS 2001»
14 years 5 months ago
Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware
Assume that each object in a database has m grades, or scores, one for each of m attributes. For example, an object can have a color grade, that tells how red it is, and a shape g...
Ronald Fagin, Amnon Lotem, Moni Naor
ICIP
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Object-based video compression scheme with optimal bit allocation among shape, motion and texture
In object-based video, the encoding of the video data is decoupled into the encoding of shape, motion and texture information, which enables certain functionalities like content-b...
Haohong Wang, Guido M. Schuster, Aggelos K. Katsag...