In the past decade or so, semi-definite programming (SDP) has emerged as a powerful tool capable of handling a remarkably wide range of problems. This article describes an innovat...
Most approaches to classifying media content assume a fixed, closed vocabulary of labels. In contrast, we advocate machine learning approaches which take advantage of the millions...
Polygon spaces like Mℓ = {(u1, · · · , un) ∈ S1 × · · · S1 ; n i=1 liui = 0}/SO(2) or they three dimensional analogues Nℓ play an important rle in geometry and topolo...
Integrated performance simulation of buildings and heating, ventilation and airconditioning (HVAC) systems can help reducing energy consumption and increasing occupant comfort. Ho...
—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...