We consider the problems of set partitioning into k clusters with minimum total cost and minimum of the maximum cost of a cluster. The cost function is given by an oracle, and we ...
Optimising the parameters of ranking functions with respect to standard IR rank-dependent cost functions has eluded satisfactory analytical treatment. We build on recent advances ...
Michael J. Taylor, Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, S...
Non-negative spectrogram factorization has been proposed for single-channel source separation tasks. These methods operate on the magnitude or power spectrogram of the input mixtur...
We consider the multiplexing of several variable bit rate (VBR) connections over one variable bit rate connection where the multiplexing uses a multiplexing bu er of size B. The V...
Silvia Giordano, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Philippe Oec...
This paper shows how suitable choice of cost function can significantly affect the power of optimisation methods for the synthesising of Boolean functions. In particular we show ...
The general problem of surface matching is taken up in this study. The process described in this work hinges on a geodesic distance equation for a family of surfaces embedded in t...
Hussein M. Yahia, Etienne G. Huot, Isabelle Herlin...
Most cost function based clustering or partitioning methods measure the compactness of groups of data. In contrast to this picture of a point source in feature space, some data sou...
The placement of regenerators in optical networks has become an active area of research during the last years. Given a set of lightpaths in a network G and a positive integer d, re...
George B. Mertzios, Ignasi Sau, Mordechai Shalom, ...
We explore the striking mathematical connections that exist between market scoring rules, cost function based prediction markets, and no-regret learning. We first show that any c...
A novel scheme for image segmentation is presented. An image segmentation criterion is proposed that gathers similar pixels together to form regions and creates boundaries between...
Baris Sumengen, B. S. Manjunath, Charles S. Kenney