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CSL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
User simulation in a stochastic dialog system
We present a new methodology of user simulation applied to the evaluation and refinement of stochastic dialog systems. Common weaknesses of these systems are the scarceness of the...
Francisco Torres, Emilio Sanchis, Encarna Segarra
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Network distance estimation with dynamic landmark triangles
This paper describes an efficient and accurate approach to estimate the network distance between arbitrary Internet hosts. We use three landmark hosts forming a triangle in two-di...
Zhihua Wen, Michael Rabinovich
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
An application of the Threshold Accepting metaheuristic for curriculum based course timetabling
The article presents a local search approach for the solution of timetabling problems in general, with a particular implementation for competition track 3 of the International Time...
Martin Josef Geiger
JPDC
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Stochastic robustness metric and its use for static resource allocations
This research investigates the problem of robust static resource allocation for distributed computing systems operating under imposed Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. Often, ...
Vladimir Shestak, Jay Smith, Anthony A. Maciejewsk...
PR
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
A memetic algorithm for evolutionary prototype selection: A scaling up approach
Prototype selection problem consists of reducing the size of databases by removing samples that are considered noisy or not influential on nearest neighbour classification tasks. ...
Salvador García, José Ramón C...