Knowledge about the workload is an important aspect for scheduling of resources as parallel computers or Grid components. As the scheduling quality highly depends on the character...
One of the greatest impediments to achieving high quality placements using force-directed methods lies in the large amount of overlap initially present in these techniques. This o...
— With the principal goal of developing an alternative, relatively simple and tractable pricing framework for accurately reproducing a market implied volatility surface, this pap...
The problem of record linkage focuses on determining whether two object descriptions refer to the same underlying entity. Addressing this problem effectively has many practical ap...
This paper presents the triple jump framework for accelerating the EM algorithm and other bound optimization methods. The idea is to extrapolate the third search point based on th...