Abstract--Max-product "belief propagation" (BP) is an iterative, message-passing algorithm for finding the maximum a posteriori (MAP) assignment of a discrete probability...
The facility location problem described in this paper comes from an industrial application in the slaughterhouse industry of Norway. Investigations show that the slaughterhouse in...
This paper proposes a novel approach to modeling the diversity in users’ perceptions, based on a mixture of qualitative and quantitative techniques: the Repertory Grid Technique ...
—We analyze the anonymous communication patterns of 2.5 million customers of a Belgian mobile phone operator. With these communications, we construct a social network of customer...
Gautier Krings, Francesco Calabrese, Carlo Ratti, ...
We present a discriminative, latent variable approach to syntactic parsing in which rules exist at multiple scales of refinement. The model is formally a latent variable CRF gramm...