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JSAC
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Elastic service availability: utility framework and optimal provisioning
Service availability is one of the most closely scrutinized metrics in offering network services. It is important to cost-effectively provision a managed and differentiated networ...
Dahai Xu, Ying Li, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderba...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
Optimal control of epidemic evolution
—Epidemic models based on nonlinear differential equations have been extensively applied in a variety of systems as diverse as infectious outbreaks, marketing, diffusion of belie...
M. H. R. Khouzani, Saswati Sarkar, Eitan Altman
MOBICOM
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
On optimal communication cost for gathering correlated data through wireless sensor networks
In many energy-constrained wireless sensor networks, nodes cooperatively forward correlated sensed data to data sinks. In order to reduce the communication cost (e.g. overall ener...
Junning Liu, Micah Adler, Donald F. Towsley, Chun ...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Consensus Training for Consensus Decoding in Machine Translation
We propose a novel objective function for discriminatively tuning log-linear machine translation models. Our objective explicitly optimizes the BLEU score of expected n-gram count...
Adam Pauls, John DeNero, Dan Klein
ICST
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Optimizing Probabilities of Real-Time Test Case Execution
—Model-based test derivation for real-time system has been proven to be a hard problem for exhaustive test suites. Therefore, techniques for real-time testing do not aim to exhau...
Nicolás Wolovick, Pedro R. D'Argenio, Hongy...