This paper presents the design and pricing of financial contracts for the supply and procurement of interruptible electricity service. While the contract forms and pricing methodo...
Abstracting from basic communication mechanisms such as transactionally secure remote procedure calls and remote database access mechanisms, this includes service trading and bro...
Michael Merz, Frank Griffel, M. Tuan Tu, Stefan M&...
A practical warm-start procedure is described for the infeasible primal-dualinterior-point method employed to solve the restricted master problem within the cutting-plane method. ...
This article improves recent methods for large scale image search. We first analyze the bag-of-features approach in the framework of approximate nearest neighbor search. This lea...
This paper introduces a new texture analysis scheme, which is invariant to local geometric and radiometric changes. The proposed methodology relies on the topographic map of images...