AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We propose a novel sequential decision approach to modeling ordinal ratings in collaborative filtering problems. The rating process is assumed to start from the lowest level, eva...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—Recent advances in virtualization technology have made it a common practice to consolidate virtual machines(VMs) into a fewer number of servers. An efficient consolidation sche...
TIT
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
A random variable with distribution P is observed in Gaussian noise and is estimated by a minimum meansquare estimator that assumes that the distribution is Q. This paper shows tha...
TIT
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Abstract--Gibilisco and Isola have recently proposed a definition of Fisher information for random variables taking values in a finite group that is analogous to the definition for...
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
The notion of a proposition as a set of possible worlds or states occupies central stage in probability theory, semantics and epistemology, where it serves as the fundamental unit...
SIAMREV
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
In this paper we propose and analyze a Stochastic-Collocation method to solve elliptic Partial Differential Equations with random coefficients and forcing terms (input data of the...
ANOR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Abstract. Suppose given a network endowed with a multiflow. We want to estimate some quantities connected with this multiflow, for instance the value of an s
EUSFLAT
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
We examine generalizations of random variables and martingales. We prove a new convergence theorem for setvalued martingales. We also generalize a well known characterization of se...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
We study graphical modeling in the case of stringvalued random variables. Whereas a weighted finite-state transducer can model the probabilistic relationship between two strings, ...
RSA
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Consider the complete n-vertex graph whose edge-lengths are independent exponentially distributed random variables. Simultaneously for each pair of vertices, put a constant flow ...