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PODS
2010
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
Optimal sampling from distributed streams
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
AAAI
2010
15 years 3 months ago
Coalition Structure Generation based on Distributed Constraint Optimization
Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in AI and multi-agent systems (MAS). Coalition Structure Generation (CSG) involves partitioning a set of agents into coa...
Suguru Ueda, Atsushi Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Marius...
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WCNC
2008
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
On the Distribution of Positioning Errors in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Simulative Comparison of Optimization Algorithms
Abstract—Recent advances in the technology of wireless electronic devices have made possible to build ad–hoc Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) using inexpensive nodes consisting ...
Stefano Tennina, Marco Di Renzo, Fortunato Santucc...
IPMI
2007
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Active Mean Fields: Solving the Mean Field Approximation in the Level Set Framework
Abstract. We describe a new approach for estimating the posterior probability of tissue labels. Conventional likelihood models are combined with a curve length prior on boundaries,...
Kilian M. Pohl, Ron Kikinis, William M. Wells III
ESA
2006
Springer
136views Algorithms» more  ESA 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Approximation in Preemptive Stochastic Online Scheduling
Abstract. We present a first constant performance guarantee for preemptive stochastic scheduling to minimize the sum of weighted completion times. For scheduling jobs with release ...
Nicole Megow, Tjark Vredeveld