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FOCS
2003
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Always Good Turing: Asymptotically Optimal Probability Estimation
While deciphering the Enigma Code during World War II, I.J. Good and A.M. Turing considered the problem of estimating a probability distribution from a sample of data. They derive...
Alon Orlitsky, Narayana P. Santhanam, Junan Zhang
SCCC
1997
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Reactive Ranking for Cooperative Databases
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Guilherme T. de Assis
SIGGRAPH
1994
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
The irradiance Jacobian for partially occluded polyhedral sources
The irradiance at a point on a surface due to a polyhedral source of uniform brightness is given by a well-known analytic formula. In this paper we derive the corresponding analyt...
James Arvo
FLAIRS
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Reasoning on Spatial Constraints over Regions
We discuss description and reasoning over regions. We have proposed a system called SRCC that integrates integration of spatial and semantic data. SRCC can describe and reason abo...
Kazuko Takahashi
WSC
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Make-to-Stock Systems with Backorders: IPA Gradients
We consider single-stage, single-product Make-to-Stock systems with random demand and random service (production) rate, where demand shortages at the inventory facility are backor...
Yao Zhao, Benjamin Melamed