We propose a new queueing model named the acquisition queue. It differs from conventional queueing models in that the server not only serves customers, but also performs acquisit...
Dee Denteneer, J. S. H. van Leeuwaarden, Ivo J. B....
Selective sampling is a form of active learning which can reduce the cost of training by only drawing informative data points into the training set. This selected training set is ...
Zhenyu Lu, Anand I. Rughani, Bruce I. Tranmer, Jos...
This paper describes a context information acquisition framework for a personal device that equips a variety of sensors. The framework captures context information about a user an...
A wireless system with multiple channels is considered, where each channel has several transmission states. A user learns about the instantaneous state of an available channel by ...
Information extraction is concerned with the location of specific items in (unstructured) textual documents, e.g., being applied for the acquisition of structured data. Then, the ...