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JSS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Effort prediction is a very important issue for software project management. Historical project data sets are frequently used to support such prediction. But missing data are oft...
STOC
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
We present new explicit constructions of deterministic randomness extractors, dispersers and related objects. We say that a distribution X on binary strings of length n is a -sour...
CISS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2008
IEEE
— We propose an implementable new universal lossy source coding algorithm. The new algorithm utilizes two wellknown tools from statistical physics and computer science: Gibbs sam...
CPHYSICS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
A new stochastic method for locating the global minimum of a multidimensional function inside a rectangular hyperbox is presented. A sampling technique is employed that makes use ...
TOMACS
2002
13 years 6 months ago
2002
Consider the problem of estimating the small probability that the maximum of a random walk exceeds a large threshold, when the process has a negative drift and the underlying rand...