It is now feasible to host basic web services on a smart phone due to the advances in wireless devices and mobile communication technologies. While the applications are quite welco...
A new family of boosting algorithms, denoted TaylorBoost, is proposed. It supports any combination of loss function and first or second order optimization, and includes classical...
Mohammad Saberian, Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi, Nuno Vas...
Abstract. One important problem for such public broadcast LBS is to enforce access control on a large number of subscribers. In such a system a user typically subscribes to a LBS f...
We address the programmatic realization of the access control model of security in distributed systems. Our aim is e the gap between abstract/declarative policies and their concre...
Andrew Cirillo, Radha Jagadeesan, Corin Pitcher, J...
Importance sampling-based algorithms are a popular alternative when Bayesian network models are too large or too complex for exact algorithms. However, importance sampling is sensi...