We investigate the use of Antithetic Variables, Control Variates and Importance Sampling to reduce the statistical errors of option sensitivities calculated with the Likelihood Ra...
Content-based image retrieval plays an important role in many multimedia applications. Images are typically retrieved based on a given sample image, a sketch or a simple descripti...
A new particle filtering technique is proposed which addresses the problem of mode preservation in the approximation of multi-modal posteriors. The key is a resampling step which...
We consider the problem of creating a sample view of a database table. A sample view is an indexed, materialized view that permits efficient sampling from an arbitrary range query...
— Bayesian networks play a key role in decision support within health care. Physicians rely on Bayesian networks to give medical treatment, generate what-if scenarios, and other ...