Group elevator scheduling has long been recognized as an important problem for building transportation efficiency, since unsatisfactory elevator service is one of the major complai...
—The Support Vector Machine is a widely employed machine learning model due to its repeatedly demonstrated superior generalization performance. The Sequential Minimal Optimizatio...
Christopher Sentelle, Michael Georgiopoulos, Georg...
— TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) is being adopted in Internet standards for congestion control of various streaming media applications. In this paper, we consider the transmiss...
Many algorithms for performing inference in graphical models have complexity that is exponential in the treewidth - a parameter of the underlying graph structure. Computing the (m...
— In this paper we develop a new dual decomposition method for optimizing a sum of convex objective functions corresponding to multiple agents but with coupled constraints. In ou...