Sciweavers

4894 search results - page 499 / 979
» The Guarding Problem - Complexity and Approximation
Sort
View
WSC
2008
15 years 7 months ago
Optimizing portfolio tail measures: Asymptotics and efficient simulation optimization
We consider a portfolio allocation problem where the objective function is a tail event such as probability of large portfolio losses. The dependence between assets is captured th...
Sandeep Juneja
NIPS
2003
15 years 6 months ago
Clustering with the Connectivity Kernel
Clustering aims at extracting hidden structure in dataset. While the problem of finding compact clusters has been widely studied in the literature, extracting arbitrarily formed ...
Bernd Fischer, Volker Roth, Joachim M. Buhmann
HEURISTICS
2008
136views more  HEURISTICS 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
Enhancing set constraint solvers with lexicographic bounds
Since their beginning in constraint programming, set solvers have been applied to a wide range of combinatorial search problems, such as bin-packing, set partitioning, circuit desi...
Andrew Sadler, Carmen Gervet
CP
2010
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
An Empirical Study of Optimization for Maximizing Diffusion in Networks
Abstract. We study the problem of maximizing the amount of stochastic diffusion in a network by acquiring nodes within a certain limited budget. We use a Sample Average Approximati...
Kiyan Ahmadizadeh, Bistra N. Dilkina, Carla P. Gom...
FOCM
2011
175views more  FOCM 2011»
14 years 12 months ago
Convergence of Fixed-Point Continuation Algorithms for Matrix Rank Minimization
The matrix rank minimization problem has applications in many fields such as system identification, optimal control, low-dimensional embedding etc. As this problem is NP-hard in ...
Donald Goldfarb, Shiqian Ma