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CIAC
2003
Springer
98views Algorithms» more  CIAC 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Customer Proximity to Railway Stations
Abstract. We consider problems of (new) station placement along (existing) railway tracks, so as to increase the number of users. We prove that, in spite of the NP-hardness for the...
Evangelos Kranakis, Paolo Penna, Konrad Schlude, D...
KDD
2006
ACM
153views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Spatial scan statistics: approximations and performance study
Spatial scan statistics are used to determine hotspots in spatial data, and are widely used in epidemiology and biosurveillance. In recent years, there has been much effort invest...
Deepak Agarwal, Andrew McGregor, Jeff M. Phillips,...
DAGM
2009
Springer
14 years 20 days ago
An Efficient Linear Method for the Estimation of Ego-Motion from Optical Flow
Abstract. Approaches to visual navigation, e.g. used in robotics, require computationally efficient, numerically stable, and robust methods for the estimation of ego-motion. One of...
Florian Raudies, Heiko Neumann
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
Jun Wang
COLT
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Adapting to a Changing Environment: the Brownian Restless Bandits
In the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem there are k distributions associated with the rewards of playing each of k strategies (slot machine arms). The reward distributions are ini...
Aleksandrs Slivkins, Eli Upfal