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HICSS
2003
IEEE
99views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
15 years 4 months ago
Towards Feasible Topology Formation Algorithms for Bluetooth-based WPANs
In this paper, we tackle the problem of topology formation in Bluetooth Wireless Personal Area Networks (BTWPANs). We first overview and extend a previously proposed centralized ...
Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Marco Ajmone Marsan, El...
HM
2010
Springer
133views Optimization» more  HM 2010»
15 years 10 days ago
A Hybrid LS-CP Solver for the Shifts and Breaks Design Problem
The problem of designing workforce shifts and break patterns is a relevant employee scheduling problem that arises in many contexts, especially in service industries. The issue is ...
Luca Di Gaspero, Johannes Gärtner, Nysret Mus...
CDC
2008
IEEE
104views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
15 years 5 months ago
A structured multiarmed bandit problem and the greedy policy
—We consider a multiarmed bandit problem where the expected reward of each arm is a linear function of an unknown scalar with a prior distribution. The objective is to choose a s...
Adam J. Mersereau, Paat Rusmevichientong, John N. ...
ICC
2007
IEEE
145views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
15 years 5 months ago
Distributed Optimization for Utility-Energy Tradeoff in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are energyconstrained in nature, in this paper, we formulate the problem of data transport in sensor networks as a network utility maxim...
Shengbin Liao, Wenqing Cheng, Wei Liu, Zongkai Yan...
ACL
2008
15 years 21 days ago
Exploiting Feature Hierarchy for Transfer Learning in Named Entity Recognition
We present a novel hierarchical prior structure for supervised transfer learning in named entity recognition, motivated by the common structure of feature spaces for this task acr...
Andrew Arnold, Ramesh Nallapati, William W. Cohen