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MANSCI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Continuing research by Jennings, Mandelbaum, Massey and Whitt (1996), we investigate methods to perform time-dependent staffing for many-server queues. Our aim is to achieve time-...
DAS
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Springer
We describe experimental results for unsupervised recognition of the textual contents of book-images using fully automatic mutual-entropy-based model adaptation. Each experiment s...
NIPS
2000
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Recent work has exploited boundedness of data in the unsupervised learning of new types of generative model. For nonnegative data it was recently shown that the maximum-entropy ge...
AIPS
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Computing a good policy in stochastic uncertain environments with unknown dynamics and reward model parameters is a challenging task. In a number of domains, ranging from space ro...
CORR
2007
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Springer
We consider the problem of estimating the parameters of a Gaussian or binary distribution in such a way that the resulting undirected graphical model is sparse. Our approach is to...