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PVLDB
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
Regret-Minimizing Representative Databases
We propose the k-representative regret minimization query (k-regret) as an operation to support multi-criteria decision making. Like top-k, the k-regret query assumes that users h...
Danupon Nanongkai, Atish Das Sarma, Ashwin Lall, R...
CVPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Value Directed Learning of Gestures and Facial Displays
This paper presents a method for learning decision theoretic models of facial expressions and gestures from video data. We consider that the meaning of a facial display or gesture...
Jesse Hoey, James J. Little
MDM
2009
Springer
138views Communications» more  MDM 2009»
16 years 19 days ago
SLA-Aware Adaptive On-demand Data Broadcasting in Wireless Environments
—In mobile and wireless networks, data broadcasting for popular data items enables the efficient utilization of the limited wireless bandwidth. However, efficient data scheduli...
Adrian Daniel Popescu, Mohamed A. Sharaf, Cristian...
DATE
2008
IEEE
131views Hardware» more  DATE 2008»
16 years 17 days ago
Scheduling of Fault-Tolerant Embedded Systems with Soft and Hard Timing Constraints
In this paper we present an approach to the synthesis of fault-tolerant schedules for embedded applications with soft and hard real-time constraints. We are interested to guarante...
Viacheslav Izosimov, Paul Pop, Petru Eles, Zebo Pe...
NOMS
2008
IEEE
16 years 14 days ago
Utility-based placement of dynamic Web applications with fairness goals
Abstract—We study the problem of dynamic resource allocation to clustered Web applications. We extend application server middleware with the ability to automatically decide the s...
David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, J...