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ISITA
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Approximating discrete probability distributions with causal dependence trees
Abstract--Chow and Liu considered the problem of approximating discrete joint distributions with dependence tree distributions where the goodness of the approximations were measure...
Christopher J. Quinn, Todd P. Coleman, Negar Kiyav...
ENVSOFT
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Optimal groundwater monitoring design using an ant colony optimization paradigm
Groundwater long-term monitoring (LTM) is required to assess the performance of groundwater remediation and human being health risk at post-closure sites where groundwater contami...
Yuanhai Li, Amy B. Chan Hilton
PE
2006
Springer
145views Optimization» more  PE 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
Closed form solutions for mapping general distributions to quasi-minimal PH distributions
Approximating general distributions by phase-type (PH) distributions is a popular technique in stochastic analysis, since the Markovian property of PH distributions often allows a...
Takayuki Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter
GECCO
2003
Springer
268views Optimization» more  GECCO 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
A Generalized Feedforward Neural Network Architecture and Its Training Using Two Stochastic Search Methods
Shunting Inhibitory Artificial Neural Networks (SIANNs) are biologically inspired networks in which the synaptic interactions are mediated via a nonlinear mechanism called shuntin...
Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Rainer Mueller
MST
2007
167views more  MST 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
The Complexity of Polynomial-Time Approximation
In 1996, Khanna and Motwani [KM96] proposed three logic-based optimization problems constrained by planar structure, and offered the hypothesis that these putatively fundamental ...
Liming Cai, Michael R. Fellows, David W. Juedes, F...