AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
We propose a novel sequential decision approach to modeling ordinal ratings in collaborative filtering problems. The rating process is assumed to start from the lowest level, eva...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
2011
IEEE
—Recent advances in virtualization technology have made it a common practice to consolidate virtual machines(VMs) into a fewer number of servers. An efficient consolidation sche...
TIT
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
A random variable with distribution P is observed in Gaussian noise and is estimated by a minimum meansquare estimator that assumes that the distribution is Q. This paper shows tha...
TIT
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
Abstract--Gibilisco and Isola have recently proposed a definition of Fisher information for random variables taking values in a finite group that is analogous to the definition for...
SYNTHESE
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
The notion of a proposition as a set of possible worlds or states occupies central stage in probability theory, semantics and epistemology, where it serves as the fundamental unit...
SIAMREV
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
In this paper we propose and analyze a Stochastic-Collocation method to solve elliptic Partial Differential Equations with random coefficients and forcing terms (input data of the...
ANOR
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Abstract. Suppose given a network endowed with a multiflow. We want to estimate some quantities connected with this multiflow, for instance the value of an s
EUSFLAT
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
We examine generalizations of random variables and martingales. We prove a new convergence theorem for setvalued martingales. We also generalize a well known characterization of se...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
We study graphical modeling in the case of stringvalued random variables. Whereas a weighted finite-state transducer can model the probabilistic relationship between two strings, ...
RSA
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Consider the complete n-vertex graph whose edge-lengths are independent exponentially distributed random variables. Simultaneously for each pair of vertices, put a constant flow ...