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WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Speeding up call center simulation and optimization by Markov chain uniformization
Staffing and scheduling optimization in large multiskill call centers is time-consuming, mainly because it requires lengthy simulations to evaluate performance measures and their ...
Eric Buist, Wyean Chan, Pierre L'Ecuyer
APPROX
2008
Springer
83views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
Sampling Hypersurfaces through Diffusion
Abstract. We are interested in efficient algorithms for generating random samples from geometric objects such as Riemannian manifolds. As a step in this direction, we consider the ...
Hariharan Narayanan, Partha Niyogi
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
A metric cache for similarity search
Similarity search in metric spaces is a general paradigm that can be used in several application fields. It can also be effectively exploited in content-based image retrieval syst...
Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlan...
RSS
2007
159views Robotics» more  RSS 2007»
15 years 8 months ago
Gaussian Beam Processes: A Nonparametric Bayesian Measurement Model for Range Finders
— In probabilistic mobile robotics, the development of measurement models plays a crucial role as it directly influences the efficiency and the robustness of the robot’s perf...
Christian Plagemann, Kristian Kersting, Patrick Pf...
UAI
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Learning Arithmetic Circuits
Graphical models are usually learned without regard to the cost of doing inference with them. As a result, even if a good model is learned, it may perform poorly at prediction, be...
Daniel Lowd, Pedro Domingos