Abstract Firms compete in supply functions when they offer a schedule of prices and quantities into a market; for example, this occurs in many wholesale electricity markets. We stu...
Distributed computing systems are a viable and less expensive alternative to parallel computers. However, concurrent programming methods in distributed systems have not been studi...
Florina M. Ciorba, Theodore Andronikos, Ioannis Ri...
A common problem in independent component analysis after prewhitening is to optimize some contrast on the orthogonal or unitary group. A popular approach is to optimize the contras...
This paper points out some drawbacks and proposes some modifications to the conventional layer-by-layer BP algorithm. In particular, we present a new perspective to the learning ra...
Xu-Qin Li, Fei Han, Tat-Ming Lok, Michael R. Lyu, ...
This paper presents a strategy to improve the AdaBoost algorithm with a quadratic combination of base classifiers. We observe that learning this combination is necessary to get be...