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UAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Inference problems in graphical models can be represented as a constrained optimization of a free energy function. It is known that when the Bethe free energy is used, the fixedpo...
HYBRID
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
In this paper, we analyze the problem of finding a periodic schedule for the wake-up times of a set of nodes in a Wireless Sensor Network that optimizes the coverage of the region...
WSC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Simulation optimization (SO) is the process of finding the optimum design of a system whose performance measure(s) are estimated via simulation. We propose some ideas to improve o...
CDC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
—We consider distributed iterative algorithms for the averaging problem over time-varying topologies. Our focus is on the convergence time of such algorithms when complete (unqua...
ICML
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2005
IEEE
Mappings to structured output spaces (strings, trees, partitions, etc.) are typically learned using extensions of classification algorithms to simple graphical structures (eg., li...