In this paper we investigate some properties and algorithms related to a text sparsification technique based on the identification of local maxima in the given string. As the numb...
Pierluigi Crescenzi, Alberto Del Lungo, Roberto Gr...
To improve weak classifiers bagging and boosting could be used. These techniques are based on combining classifiers. Usually, a simple majority vote or a weighted majority vote are...
We consider a portfolio allocation problem where the objective function is a tail event such as probability of large portfolio losses. The dependence between assets is captured th...
Hierarchical menus are now ubiquitous. The performance of the menu depends on many factors: structure, layout, colors and so on. There has been extensive research on novel menus, ...
Language software applications encounter new words, e.g., acronyms, technical terminology, loan words, names or compounds of such words. Looking at English, one might assume that t...