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SSPR
1998
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Distribution Free Decomposition of Multivariate Data
: We present a practical approach to nonparametric cluster analysis of large data sets. The number of clusters and the cluster centres are automatically derived by mode seeking wit...
Dorin Comaniciu, Peter Meer
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VLDB
1998
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
Buffering and Read-Ahead Strategies for External Mergesort
The elapsed time for external mergesort is normally dominated by I/O time. This paper is focused on reducing I/O time during the merge phase. Three new buffering and readahead str...
Weiye Zhang, Per-Åke Larson
120
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WSC
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Efficient Pricing of Barrier Options with the Variance-Gamma Model
We develop an efficient Monte Carlo algorithm for pricing barrier options with the variance gamma model (Madan, Carr, and Chang 1998). After generalizing the double-gamma bridge s...
Athanassios N. Avramidis
124
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AAAI
1998
15 years 5 months ago
Optimal 2D Model Matching Using a Messy Genetic Algorithm
A Messy Genetic Algorithm is customized toflnd'optimal many-to-many matches for 2D line segment models. The Messy GA is a variant upon the Standard Genetic Algorithm in which...
J. Ross Beveridge
118
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FLAIRS
1998
15 years 5 months ago
Lazy Transformation-Based Learning
Weintroduce a significant improvementfor a relatively newmachine learning methodcalled Transformation-Based Learning. By applying a MonteCarlo strategy to randomly sample from the...
Ken Samuel