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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...
RTAS
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1999
IEEE
We present a QoS management framework that enables us to quantitatively measure QoS, and to analytically plan and allocate resources. In this model, end users' quality prefer...
ECCC
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
We introduce a new algorithm and a new analysis technique that is applicable to a variety of online optimization scenarios, including regret minimization for Lipschitz regret func...
TKDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
The computational grid is rapidly evolving into a service-oriented computing infrastructure that facilitates resource sharing and large-scale problem solving over the Internet. Ser...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
In various applications, the effect of errors in gradient-based iterations is of particular importance when seeking saddle points of the Lagrangian function associated with constra...