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CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A volcano erupts: semantically mediated integration of heterogeneous volcanic and atmospheric data
We present a research effort into the application of semantic web methods and technologies to address the challenging problem of integrating heterogeneous volcanic and atmospheri...
Peter Fox, Deborah L. McGuinness, Robert Raskin, A...
ML
2006
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Universal parameter optimisation in games based on SPSA
Most game programs have a large number of parameters that are crucial for their performance. While tuning these parameters by hand is rather difficult, efficient and easy to use ge...
Levente Kocsis, Csaba Szepesvári
CCO
2001
Springer
161views Combinatorics» more  CCO 2001»
13 years 9 months ago
Branch, Cut, and Price: Sequential and Parallel
Branch, cut, and price (BCP) is an LP-based branch and bound technique for solving large-scale discrete optimization problems (DOPs). In BCP, both cuts and variables can be generat...
Laszlo Ladányi, Ted K. Ralphs, Leslie E. Tr...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
165views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Statistical analysis of sketch estimators
Sketching techniques can provide approximate answers to aggregate queries either for data-streaming or distributed computation. Small space summaries that have linearity propertie...
Florin Rusu, Alin Dobra
STOC
2005
ACM
129views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
Learning with attribute costs
We study an extension of the "standard" learning models to settings where observing the value of an attribute has an associated cost (which might be different for differ...
Haim Kaplan, Eyal Kushilevitz, Yishay Mansour