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MM
2009
ACM
147views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Distribution-based concept selection for concept-based video retrieval
Query-to-concept mapping plays one of the keys to concept-based video retrieval. Conventional approaches try to find concepts that are likely to co-occur in the relevant shots fro...
Juan Cao, HongFang Jing, Chong-Wah Ngo, Yongdong Z...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Sharing experiences to learn user characteristics in dynamic environments with sparse data
This paper investigates the problem of estimating the value of probabilistic parameters needed for decision making in environments in which an agent, operating within a multi-agen...
David Sarne, Barbara J. Grosz
APPROX
2006
Springer
88views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2006»
14 years 16 days ago
Weighted Sum Coloring in Batch Scheduling of Conflicting Jobs
Motivated by applications in batch scheduling of jobs in manufacturing systems and distributed computing, we study two related problems. Given is a set of jobs {J1, . . . , Jn}, w...
Leah Epstein, Magnús M. Halldórsson,...
TSP
2012
12 years 4 months ago
Sensing and Probing Cardinalities for Active Cognitive Radios
—In a cognitive radio network, opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) to the underutilized spectrum involves not only sensing the spectrum occupancy but also probing the channel qua...
Thang Van Nguyen, Hyundong Shin, Tony Q. S. Quek, ...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
150views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Performance of random medium access control, an asymptotic approach
Random Medium-Access-Control (MAC) algorithms have played an increasingly important role in the development of wired and wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) and yet the performanc...
Charles Bordenave, David McDonald, Alexandre Prout...