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ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Truthful Two-Stage Mechanism for Eliciting Probabilistic Estimates with Unknown Costs
This paper reports on the design of a novel two-stage mechanism, based on strictly proper scoring rules, that motivates selfish rational agents to make a costly probabilistic estim...
Athanasios Papakonstantinou, Alex Rogers, Enrico H...
AVBPA
2005
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
A Principled Approach to Score Level Fusion in Multimodal Biometric Systems
A multimodal biometric system integrates information from multiple biometric sources to compensate for the limitations in performance of each individual biometric system. We propos...
Sarat C. Dass, Karthik Nandakumar, Anil K. Jain
IIE
2006
101views more  IIE 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Random Factors in IOI 2005 Test Case Scoring
We examine the precision with which the cumulative score from a suite of test cases ranks participants in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). Our concern is the abilit...
Gordon V. Cormack
CSDA
2007
99views more  CSDA 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
CLUES: A non-parametric clustering method based on local shrinking
In this paper, we propose a novel non-parametric clustering method based on non-parametric local shrinking. Each data point is transformed in such a way that it moves a specific ...
Xiaogang Wang, Weiliang Qiu, Ruben H. Zamar
BMCBI
2008
108views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
A nonparametric model for quality control of database search results in shotgun proteomics
Background: Analysis of complex samples with tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) has become routine in proteomic research. However, validation of database search results creates a bo...
Jiyang Zhang, Jianqi Li, Xin Liu, Hongwei Xie, Yun...