We present a unified model of what was traditionally viewed as two separate tasks: data association and intensity tracking of multiple topics over time. In the data association pa...
The conditional distribution of a discrete variable y, given another discrete variable x, is often specified by assigning one multinomial distribution to each state of x. The cost...
Abstract. Given a set J of jobs, where each job j is associated with release date rj, deadline dj and processing time pj, our goal is to schedule all jobs using the minimum possibl...
This paper studies the dynamic Web service selection problem in a failure-prone environment, which aims to determine a subset of Web services to be invoked at runtime so as to succ...
In this paper, we propose a hierarchical classifier structure for gender classification based on facial images by reducing the complexity of the original problem. In the proposed f...