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SRDS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Using Multicast Communication to Reduce Deadlock in Replicated Databases
Obtaining good performance from a distributed replicated database that allows update transactions to originate at any site while ensuring one-copy serializability is a challenge. ...
JoAnne Holliday, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
CEEMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
How Our Beliefs Contribute to Interpret Actions
Abstract. In update logic the interpretation of an action is often assumed to be independent from the agents’ beliefs about the situation (see [BMS04] or [Auc05]). In this paper ...
Guillaume Aucher
IJAR
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Bayesian learning for a class of priors with prescribed marginals
We present Bayesian updating of an imprecise probability measure, represented by a class of precise multidimensional probability measures. Choice and analysis of our class are mot...
Hermann Held, Thomas Augustin, Elmar Kriegler
JMLR
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
On the Convergence Properties of Contrastive Divergence
Contrastive Divergence (CD) is a popular method for estimating the parameters of Markov Random Fields (MRFs) by rapidly approximating an intractable term in the gradient of the lo...
Ilya Sutskever, Tijmen Tieleman
ISIPTA
2005
IEEE
168views Mathematics» more  ISIPTA 2005»
14 years 4 months ago
Bayesianism Without Priors, Acts Without Consequences
: A generalization of subjective expected utility is presented in which the primitives are a finite set of states of the world, a finite set of strategies available to the decision...
Robert Nau