We consider the problem of the exact simulation of random variables Z that satisfy the distributional identity Z L = V Y + (1 − V )Z, where V ∈ [0, 1] and Y are independent, an...
Recently, Multiple Background Models (M-BMs) [1, 2] have been shown to be useful in speaker verification, where the M-BMs are formed based on different Vocal Tract Lengths (VTLs)...
views abstract groups of tasks in a workflow into high level composite tasks, in order to reuse sub-workflows and facilitate provenance analysis. However, unless a view is careful...
Virtually every commercial query optimizer chooses the best plan for a query using a cost model that relies heavily on accurate cardinality estimation. Cardinality estimation erro...
Volker Markl, Vijayshankar Raman, David E. Simmen,...
In information retrieval, relevance of documents with respect to queries is usually judged by humans, and used in evaluation and/or learning of ranking functions. Previous work ha...
Jingfang Xu, Chuanliang Chen, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Elbi...