Online interval selection is a problem in which intervals arrive one by one, sorted by their left endpoints. Each interval has a length and a non-negative weight associated with i...
The focus is on black-box optimization of a function f : RN R given as a black box, i. e. an oracle for f-evaluations. This is commonly called direct search, and in fact, most meth...
This paper studies global ranking problem by learning to rank methods. Conventional learning to rank methods are usually designed for `local ranking', in the sense that the r...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...
First Come First Served is a policy that is accepted for implementing fairness in a number of application domains such as scheduling in Operating Systems [28, 11], scheduling web ...
Exposure levels (X-ray tube amperage and peak kilovoltage) are associated with various noise levels and radiation dose. When higher exposure levels are applied, the images have hi...