—Many emerging information processing applications require applying various fork and join type operations such as correlation, aggregation, and encoding/decoding to data streams ...
Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Cathy H. Xia, Zhen Liu, Dona...
Importance sampling is a popular approach to estimate rare event failures of SRAM cells. We propose to improve importance sampling by probability collectives. First, we use “Kul...
Fang Gong, Sina Basir-Kazeruni, Lara Dolecek, Lei ...
Accurately and efficiently estimating the number of distinct values for some attribute(s) or sets of attributes in a data set is of critical importance to many database operation...
Term-weighting functions derived from various models of retrieval aim to model human notions of relevance more accurately. However, there is a lack of analysis of the sources of e...
Compounding processes, also known as perpetuities, play an important role in many applications; in particular, in time series analysis and mathematical finance. Apart from some s...