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SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Opportunistic forwarding in workplaces
So far, the search for Opportunistic Network (ON) applications has focused on urban/rural scenarios where the combined use of mobility and the store-carry-and-forward paradigm hel...
Sabrina Gaito, Elena Pagani, Gian Paolo Rossi
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Autonomous nondeterministic tour guides: improving quality of experience with TTD-MDPs
In this paper, we address the problem of building a system of autonomous agents for a complex environment, in our case, a museum with many visitors. Visitors may have varying pref...
Andrew S. Cantino, David L. Roberts, Charles L. Is...
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Modeling the structure and evolution of discussion cascades
We analyze the structure and evolution of discussion cascades in four popular websites: Slashdot, Barrapunto, Meneame and Wikipedia. Despite the big heterogeneities between these ...
Vicenç Gómez, Hilbert J. Kappen, And...
IOR
2008
103views more  IOR 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Portfolio Credit Risk with Extremal Dependence: Asymptotic Analysis and Efficient Simulation
We consider the risk of a portfolio comprised of loans, bonds, and financial instruments that are subject to possible default. In particular, we are interested in performance meas...
Achal Bassamboo, Sandeep Juneja, Assaf J. Zeevi