Abstract. We present an algorithm to generate samples from probability distributions on the space of curves. We view a traditional curve evolution energy functional as a negative l...
Ayres C. Fan, John W. Fisher III, William M. Wells...
Abstract. Retrieving semistructured (XML) data typically requires either a structured query such as XPath, or a keyword query that does not take structure into account. In this pap...
— In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a burst retransmission scheme in which the bursts lost due to contentions in an OBS network are retransmitted at the OBS layer. Th...
Qiong Zhang, Vinod Vokkarane, Yuke Wang, Jason P. ...
— We consider decision-making problems in Markov decision processes where both the rewards and the transition probabilities vary in an arbitrary (e.g., nonstationary) fashion. We...
The present paper studies the probability of ruin of an insurer, if excess of loss reinsurance with reinstatements is applied. In the setting of the classical CramerLundberg risk ...