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ICC
2007
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Energy and Utility Optimization in Wireless Networks with Random Access
— Energy consumption is a main issue of concern in wireless networks. Energy minimization increases the time that networks’ nodes work properly without recharging or substituti...
Amir Mahdi Khodaian, Babak Hossein Khalaj
ACL
2006
15 years 6 months ago
Minimum Risk Annealing for Training Log-Linear Models
When training the parameters for a natural language system, one would prefer to minimize 1-best loss (error) on an evaluation set. Since the error surface for many natural languag...
David A. Smith, Jason Eisner
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IOR
2007
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15 years 4 months ago
Fast, Fair, and Efficient Flows in Networks
Abstract. We study the problem of minimizing the maximum latency of flows in networks with congestion. We show that this problem is NP-hard, even when all arc latency functions ar...
José R. Correa, Andreas S. Schulz, Nicol&aa...
SODA
2012
ACM
173views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
13 years 7 months ago
Resource augmentation for weighted flow-time explained by dual fitting
We propose a general dual-fitting technique for analyzing online scheduling algorithms in the unrelated machines setting where the objective function involves weighted flow-time...
S. Anand 0002, Naveen Garg, Amit Kumar
CVPR
2009
IEEE
17 years 2 days ago
Global Active Contour-based Image Segmentation via Probability Alignment
Active contours is a popular technique for image segmentation. However, active contour tend to converge to the closest local minimum of its energy function and often requires a ...
Andriy Myronenko, Xubo B. Song