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EOR
2002
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13 years 8 months ago
Capacity selection under uncertainty with ratio objectives
Capacity choice or expansion, whether organic or via mergers and acquisitions, creates firms of widely varying scales. The ex-post profitability of such a transformed firm relativ...
Yigal Gerchak, Elkafi Hassini, Saibal Ray
EDBT
2011
ACM
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13 years 3 days ago
Fast and accurate computation of equi-depth histograms over data streams
Equi-depth histograms represent a fundamental synopsis widely used in both database and data stream applications, as they provide the cornerstone of many techniques such as query ...
Hamid Mousavi, Carlo Zaniolo
SIGMETRICS
1999
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
Availability and Utility of Idle Memory in Workstation Clusters
In this paper, we examine the availability and utility of idle memory in workstation clusters. We attempt to answer the following questions. First, how much of the total memory in...
Anurag Acharya, Sanjeev Setia
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 10 days ago
A single-port non-parametric model of turn-taking in multi-party conversation
The taking of turns to speak is an intrinsic property of conversation. It is expected that models of taking turns, providing a prior distribution over conversational form, can red...
Kornel Laskowski, Jens Edlund, Mattias Heldner
UAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Web-Based Question Answering: A Decision-Making Perspective
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...