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PODC
2005
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Quorum placement in networks to minimize access delays
A quorum system is a family of sets (themselves called quorums), each pair of which intersect. In many distributed algorithms, the basic unit accessed by a client is a quorum of n...
Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Micha...
IROS
2008
IEEE
126views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
15 years 10 months ago
An optical external localization system and applications to indoor tracking
— Precise robot positioning is important for many applications in indoor environments. Current solutions to the indoor localization problem are either both unreliable and inaccur...
Srujan Linga, Binayak Roy, H. Harry Asada, Daniela...
FOCI
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Almost All Learning Machines are Singular
— A learning machine is called singular if its Fisher information matrix is singular. Almost all learning machines used in information processing are singular, for example, layer...
Sumio Watanabe
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
On the limits of dictatorial classification
In the strategyproof classification setting, a set of labeled examples is partitioned among multiple agents. Given the reported labels, an optimal classification mechanism returns...
Reshef Meir, Ariel D. Procaccia, Jeffrey S. Rosens...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A boosting approach to improving pseudo-relevance feedback
Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven effective for improving the average retrieval performance. Unfortunately, many experiments have shown that although pseudo-relevance feedback...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai, Wan Chen