Much work has been done on learning various classes of "simple" monotone functions under the uniform distribution. In this paper we give the first unconditional lower bo...
Abstract In this publication, we discuss a use case for employing Grid technology in a media production / distribution environment. This type of environment is faced with the chall...
Bruno Volckaert, Tim Wauters, Marc De Leenheer, Pi...
Abstract-- Overlay networks are application layer systems which facilitate users in performing distributed functions such as searches over the contents of other users. An important...
We explore different approaches for performing hypothesis tests on the shape of a mean function by developing general methodologies both, for the often assumed, i.i.d. error struc...
Generalized additive models (GAM) for modelling nonlinear effects of continuous covariates are now well established tools for the applied statistician. In this paper we develop Ba...