Determining candidates' views on important issues is critical in deciding whom to support and vote for; but finding their statements and votes on an issue can be laborious. I...
We present a new lossy compressor for discrete sources. For coding a source sequence xn , the encoder starts by assigning a certain cost to each reconstruction sequence. It then f...
The interest among a geographically distributed user base to mine massive collections of scientific data propels the need for efficient data dissemination solutions. An optimal dat...
In this paperweconsidertheproblemof schedulingdifferentclasses of customerson multiple distributed serversto minimize an objective function basedon per-classmeanresponsetimes.This...
We introduce a new graph-theoretic approach to image segmentation based on minimizing a novel class of `mean cut' cost functions. Minimizing these cost functions corresponds ...