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FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
195views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
CWS: a model-driven scheduling policy for correlated workloads
We define CWS, a non-preemptive scheduling policy for workloads with correlated job sizes. CWS tackles the scheduling problem by inferring the expected sizes of upcoming jobs bas...
Giuliano Casale, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni
KDD
2010
ACM
215views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
On the quality of inferring interests from social neighbors
This paper intends to provide some insights of a scientific problem: how likely one’s interests can be inferred from his/her social connections – friends, friends’ friends,...
Zhen Wen, Ching-Yung Lin
NIPS
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Joint Tracking of Pose, Expression, and Texture using Conditionally Gaussian Filters
We present a generative model and stochastic filtering algorithm for simultaneous tracking of 3D position and orientation, non-rigid motion, object texture, and background texture...
Tim K. Marks, John R. Hershey, J. Cooper Roddey, J...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Emergent service provisioning and demand estimation through self-organizing agent communities
A major challenge within open markets is the ability to satisfy service demand with an adequate supply of service providers, especially when such demand may be volatile due to cha...
Mariusz Jacyno, Seth Bullock, Michael Luck, Terry ...