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ICC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Statistical Bit Error Generator for Emulation of Complex Forward Error Correction Schemes
— Forward Error Correction (FEC) schemes are generally used in wireless communication systems to maintain an acceptable quality of service. Various models have been proposed in l...
Reuben A. Farrugia, Carl James Debono
IMCSIT
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Efficient Portfolio Optimization with Conditional Value at Risk
The portfolio optimization problem is modeled as a mean-risk bicriteria optimization problem where the expected return is maximized and some (scalar) risk measure is minimized. In ...
Wlodzimierz Ogryczak, Tomasz Sliwinski
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Bias in random forest variable importance measures: Illustrations, sources and a solution
Variable importance measures for random forests have been receiving increased attention as a means of variable selection in many classification tasks in bioinformatics and relate...
Carolin Strobl, Anne-Laure Boulesteix, Achim Zeile...
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A randomized, o(log w)-depth 2 smoothing network
A K-smoothing network is a distributed, low-contention data structure where tokens arrive arbitrarily on w input wires and reach w output wires via their completely asynchronous p...
Marios Mavronicolas, Thomas Sauerwald
STACS
2012
Springer
12 years 3 months ago
Low Randomness Rumor Spreading via Hashing
We consider the classical rumor spreading problem, where a piece of information must be disseminated from a single node to all n nodes of a given network. We devise two simple pus...
George Giakkoupis, Thomas Sauerwald, He Sun, Phili...