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...
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...
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....
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...
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...