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2004
ACM
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16 years 3 months ago
On sums of independent random variables with unbounded variance, and estimating the average degree in a graph
We prove the following inequality: for every positive integer n and every collection X1, . . . , Xn of nonnegative independent random variables that each has expectation 1, the pr...
Uriel Feige
COLT
2004
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Concentration Bounds for Unigrams Language Model
Abstract. We show several PAC-style concentration bounds for learning unigrams language model. One interesting quantity is the probability of all words appearing exactly k times in...
Evgeny Drukh, Yishay Mansour
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ANOR
2004
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Call Center Staffing with Simulation and Cutting Plane Methods
We present an iterative cutting plane method for minimizing staffing costs in a service system subject to satisfying acceptable service level requirements over multiple time perio...
Júlíus Atlason, Marina A. Epelman, S...
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SOCO
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Using evolution strategies to solve DEC-POMDP problems
Decentralized partially observable Markov decision process (DEC-POMDP) is an approach to model multi-robot decision making problems under uncertainty. Since it is NEXP-complete the...
Baris Eker, H. Levent Akin
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WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Efficient search engine measurements
We address the problem of measuring global quality metrics of search engines, like corpus size, index freshness, and density of duplicates in the corpus. The recently proposed est...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Maxim Gurevich