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REFSQ
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Optimal-Constraint Lexicons for Requirements Specifications
Abstract. Constrained Natural Languages (CNLs) are becoming an increasingly popular way of writing technical documents such as requirements specifications. This is because CNLs aim...
Stephen Boyd, Didar Zowghi, Vincenzo Gervasi
ICVGIP
2004
15 years 1 months ago
Modeling Signs Using Functional Data Analysis
1 We present a functional data analysis (FDA) based method to statistically model continuous signs of the American Sign Language (ASL) for use in the recognition of signs in contin...
Sunita Nayak, Sudeep Sarkar, Kuntal Sengupta
PODS
1999
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
Tracking Join and Self-Join Sizes in Limited Storage
Query optimizers rely on fast, high-quality estimates of result sizes in order to select between various join plans. Selfjoin sizes of relations provide bounds on the join size of...
Noga Alon, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, Mario...
CP
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Heuristic Selection for Stochastic Search Optimization: Modeling Solution Quality by Extreme Value Theory
The success of stochastic algorithms is often due to their ability to effectively amplify the performance of search heuristics. This is certainly the case with stochastic sampling ...
Vincent A. Cicirello, Stephen F. Smith
JMLR
2012
13 years 2 months ago
Conditional Likelihood Maximisation: A Unifying Framework for Information Theoretic Feature Selection
We present a unifying framework for information theoretic feature selection, bringing almost two decades of research on heuristic filter criteria under a single theoretical inter...
Gavin Brown, Adam Pocock, Ming-Jie Zhao, Mikel Luj...