— With the principal goal of developing an alternative, relatively simple and tractable pricing framework for accurately reproducing a market implied volatility surface, this pap...
The interaction between recursion in XPATH and recursion in DTDs makes it challenging to answer XPATH queries on XML data that is stored in an RDBMS via schema-based shredding. We...
A new, general approach is described for approximate inference in first-order probabilistic languages, using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques in the space of concrete po...
World Wide Web (WWW) is a vast source of information, the problem of information overload is more acute than ever. Due to noise in WWW, it is becoming hard to find usable informati...
In this paper, we introduce a higher-order MRF optimization
framework. On the one hand, it is very general;
we thus use it to derive a generic optimizer that can be applied
to a...
Nikos Komodakis (University of Crete), Nikos Parag...