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CDC
2008
IEEE
142views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Asynchronous distributed optimization with minimal communication
— We consider problems where multiple agents must cooperate to control their individual state so as to optimize a common objective while communicating with each other to exchange...
Minyi Zhong, Christos G. Cassandras
PODS
2001
ACM
127views Database» more  PODS 2001»
14 years 7 months ago
Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware
Assume that each object in a database has m grades, or scores, one for each of m attributes. For example, an object can have a color grade, that tells how red it is, and a shape g...
Ronald Fagin, Amnon Lotem, Moni Naor
IOR
2010
93views more  IOR 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Equilibrium Capacity Expansion Under Stochastic Demand Growth
In critical energy infrastructure sectors (e.g. electric power generation, natural gas transportation, oil refining capacity) maintaining certain level of excess capacity is soci...
Alfredo Garcia, Zhijiang Shen
VLDB
2007
ACM
147views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
A General Framework for Modeling and Processing Optimization Queries
An optimization query asks for one or more data objects that maximize or minimize some function over the data set. We propose a general class of queries, model-based optimization ...
Michael Gibas, Ning Zheng, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu
CVPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Multiple Kernel Tracking with SSD
Kernel-based objective functions optimized using the mean shift algorithm have been demonstrated as an effective means of tracking in video sequences. The resulting algorithms com...
Gregory D. Hager, Maneesh Dewan, Charles V. Stewar...