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ISBI
2004
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Image-Quality Assessment in Optical Tomography
Modern medical imaging systems often rely on complicated hardware and sophisticated algorithms to produce useful digital images. It is essential that the imaging hardware and any ...
Matthew A. Kupinski, Eric Clarkson
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SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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15 years 8 months ago
Variance aware optimization of parameterized queries
Parameterized queries are commonly used in database applications. In a parameterized query, the same SQL statement is potentially executed multiple times with different parameter ...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Hongrae Lee, Vivek R. Narasayya
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EENERGY
2010
15 years 7 months ago
Optimal sleep patterns for serving delay-tolerant jobs
Sleeping is an important method to reduce energy consumption in many information and communication systems. In this paper we focus on a typical server under dynamic load, where en...
Ioannis Kamitsos, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Hongseok K...
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WSC
1998
15 years 4 months ago
Use of Simulation in Optimization of Maintenance Policies
Selecting an optimum maintenance policy independent of other parameters of the production system does not always yield the overall optimum operating conditions. For instance, high...
Farhad Azadivar, J. Victor Shu