Staffing and scheduling optimization in large multiskill call centers is time-consuming, mainly because it requires lengthy simulations to evaluate performance measures and their ...
Monitoring the performance of large shared computing systems such as the cloud computing infrastructure raises many challenging algorithmic problems. One common problem is to trac...
Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Luca Foschini, Subhash Suri
We present Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding over translation lattices that compactly encode a huge number of translation hypotheses. We describe conditions on the loss function t...
Roy Tromble, Shankar Kumar, Franz Josef Och, Wolfg...
Ranking is at the heart of many information retrieval applications. Unlike standard regression or classification in which we predict outputs independently, in ranking we are inter...
This paper presents a new approach to extracting and representing structural features of images. The approach is based on both a region-based analysis and a contour-based analysis...