A recursive acceleration method is proposed for multiplicative multilevel aggregation algorithms that calculate the stationary probability vector of large, sparse, and irreducible ...
Nowadays, the Quality of Service (QoS) in Optical Grids has become a key issue. An important QoS factor is the resiliency, namely the ability to survive from certain network failur...
Brigitte Jaumard, Jens Buysse, Ali Shaikh, Marc De...
Until recently, local governments in Spain were using machines with rolling cylinders for verifying taximeters. However, the condition of the tires can lead to errors in the proces...
A key challenge in recommender system research is how to effectively profile new users, a problem generally known as cold-start recommendation. Recently the idea of progressivel...
—Popular Internet services are hosted by multiple geographically distributed datacenters. The location of the datacenters has a direct impact on the services’ response times, c...