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IJAR
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
Theoretical analysis and practical insights on importance sampling in Bayesian networks
The AIS-BN algorithm [2] is a successful importance sampling-based algorithm for Bayesian networks that relies on two heuristic methods to obtain an initial importance function: -...
Changhe Yuan, Marek J. Druzdzel
IEICET
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Direct Importance Estimation with a Mixture of Probabilistic Principal Component Analyzers
Estimating the ratio of two probability density functions (a.k.a. the importance) has recently gathered a great deal of attention since importance estimators can be used for solvi...
Makoto Yamada, Masashi Sugiyama, Gordon Wichern, J...
EDCC
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Towards Understanding the Importance of Variables in Dependable Software
Abstract—A dependable software system contains two important components, namely, error detection mechanisms and error recovery mechanisms. An error detection mechanism attempts t...
Matthew Leeke, Arshad Jhumka
WCNC
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Characterizing Link Importance in Multi-Channel, Multi-Radio, Multi-Rate Wireless Mesh Networks
Abstract— Modern day wireless networks are increasingly supporting various civilian applications that require high bandwidth for successful operation. In such cases, it is import...
Ranjan Pal, Chen-Nee Chuah
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Automated Storage Reclamation Using Temporal Importance Annotations
This work focuses on scenarios that require the storage of large amounts of data. Such systems require the ability to either continuously increase the storage space or reclaim spa...
Surendar Chandra, Ashish Gehani, Xuwen Yu