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HASE
1998
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Combining Various Solution Techniques for Dynamic Fault Tree Analysis of Computer Systems
Fault trees provide a graphical and logical framework for analyzing the reliability of systems. A fault tree provides a conceptually simple modeling framework to represent the sys...
Ragavan Manian, Joanne Bechta Dugan, David Coppit,...
ECIR
2007
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Combining Evidence for Relevance Criteria: A Framework and Experiments in Web Retrieval
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas
GECCO
2007
Springer
183views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
Another investigation on tournament selection: modelling and visualisation
Tournament selection has been widely used and studied in evolutionary algorithms. To supplement the study of tournament selection, this paper provides several models describing th...
Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae
JMLR
2011
145views more  JMLR 2011»
14 years 11 months ago
Cumulative Distribution Networks and the Derivative-sum-product Algorithm: Models and Inference for Cumulative Distribution Func
We present a class of graphical models for directly representing the joint cumulative distribution function (CDF) of many random variables, called cumulative distribution networks...
Jim C. Huang, Brendan J. Frey
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ICC
2007
IEEE
136views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
On the Approximation of the Linear Combination of Log-Normal RVs via Pearson Type IV Distribution: Application to UWB Performanc
— Approximating the sum of Log–Normal random variables (RVs) is a long–standing open issue, in the old and recent literature, and many approaches have been proposed to deal w...
Marco Di Renzo, Fabio Graziosi, Fortunato Santucci