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WAOA
2005
Springer
86views Algorithms» more  WAOA 2005»
16 years 2 days ago
SONET ADMs Minimization with Divisible Paths
We consider an optical routing problem. SONET add-drop multiplexers (ADMs) are the dominant cost factor in SONET /WDM rings. The number of SONET ADMs required by a set of traffic...
Leah Epstein, Asaf Levin
ICML
2004
IEEE
16 years 1 days ago
Optimising area under the ROC curve using gradient descent
This paper introduces RankOpt, a linear binary classifier which optimises the area under the ROC curve (the AUC). Unlike standard binary classifiers, RankOpt adopts the AUC stat...
Alan Herschtal, Bhavani Raskutti
GC
2004
Springer
16 years 5 hour ago
A Physics-Style Approach to Scalability of Distributed systems
Abstract. Is it possible to treat large scale distributed systems as physical systems? The importance of that question stems from the fact that the behavior of many P2P systems is ...
Erik Aurell, Sameh El-Ansary
KDD
2004
ACM
170views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
15 years 12 months ago
Estimating the size of the telephone universe: a Bayesian Mark-recapture approach
Mark-recapture models have for many years been used to estimate the unknown sizes of animal and bird populations. In this article we adapt a finite mixture mark-recapture model i...
David Poole
HICSS
2002
IEEE
91views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
15 years 11 months ago
Evaluation of User Search in a Web-Database
The number of Web-databases has exploded during the last years. In order to justify the development of new information resources, it is essential to know if the use of existing re...
Joan C. Nordbotten, Svein Nordbotten