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TOMACS
2002
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14 years 11 months ago
Simulating heavy tailed processes using delayed hazard rate twisting
Consider the problem of estimating the small probability that the maximum of a random walk exceeds a large threshold, when the process has a negative drift and the underlying rand...
Sandeep Juneja, Perwez Shahabuddin
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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14 years 10 months ago
Learning and planning high-dimensional physical trajectories via structured Lagrangians
— We consider the problem of finding sufficiently simple models of high-dimensional physical systems that are consistent with observed trajectories, and using these models to s...
Paul Vernaza, Daniel D. Lee, Seung-Joon Yi
IOR
2011
96views more  IOR 2011»
14 years 6 months ago
On the Minimax Complexity of Pricing in a Changing Environment
We consider a pricing problem in an environment where the customers’ willingness-to-pay (WtP) distribution may change at some point over the selling horizon. Customers arrive se...
Omar Besbes, Assaf J. Zeevi
SENSYS
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
StarDust: a flexible architecture for passive localization in wireless sensor networks
The problem of localization in wireless sensor networks where nodes do not use ranging hardware, remains a challenging problem, when considering the required location accuracy, en...
Radu Stoleru, Pascal Vicaire, Tian He, John A. Sta...
CVPR
1998
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Comparing Images under Variable Illumination
We consider the problem of determining whether two images come from different objects or the same object in the same pose, but under different illumination conditions. We show tha...
David W. Jacobs, Peter N. Belhumeur, Ronen Basri