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WINE
2007
Springer
124views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
Stochastic Models for Budget Optimization in Search-Based Advertising
Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users’ search queries via an auction. Advertisers have to solve a complex optimization problem of how to place bids o...
S. Muthukrishnan, Martin Pál, Zoya Svitkina
WAOA
2004
Springer
85views Algorithms» more  WAOA 2004»
15 years 9 months ago
A PTAS for Delay Minimization in Establishing Wireless Conference Calls
A prevailing feature of mobile telephony systems is that the location of a mobile user may be unknown. Therefore, when the system has to establish a call between users, it may nee...
Leah Epstein, Asaf Levin
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SRDS
1999
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
An Adaptive Checkpointing Protocol to Bound Recovery Time with Message Logging
Numerous mathematical approaches have been proposed to determine the optimal checkpoint interval for minimizing total execution time of an application in the presence of failures....
Kuo-Feng Ssu, Bin Yao, W. Kent Fuchs
153
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WSC
2008
15 years 6 months ago
Skart: A skewness- and autoregression-adjusted batch-means procedure for simulation analysis
We discuss Skart, an automated batch-means procedure for constructing a skewness- and autoregression-adjusted confidence interval for the steady-state mean of a simulation output ...
Ali Tafazzoli, James R. Wilson, Emily K. Lada, Nat...
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NIPS
2008
15 years 5 months ago
Global Ranking Using Continuous Conditional Random Fields
This paper studies global ranking problem by learning to rank methods. Conventional learning to rank methods are usually designed for `local ranking', in the sense that the r...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...