The designers of a large scale video-on-demand system face an optimization problem of deciding how to assign movies to multiple disks (servers) such that the request blocking proba...
Jun Guo, Eric Wing Ming Wong, Sammy Chan, Peter Ta...
Two of the most difficult problems faced by developers of synchronous groupware applications are the handling of multiple session connections and the maintenance of replicated dat...
This paper presents a novel discriminative learning method, called Manifold Discriminant Analysis (MDA), to solve the problem of image set classification. By modeling each image s...
Abstract. Nonlinear component analysis is a popular nonlinear feature extraction method. It generally uses eigen-decomposition technique to extract the principal components. But th...
We examine a few elementary cases of forward contracting and a process by which capacity contracts with energy strike prices can lead to incentives for enhanced competition. To mo...