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SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Aerial Platform Placement Algorithm to Satisfy Connectivity and Capacity Constraints in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
—In this paper, we address the problem of establishing full connectivity and satisfying required traffic capacity between disconnected clusters in large wireless ad-hoc ground n...
Senni Perumal, John S. Baras
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Spot Pricing of Secondary Spectrum Usage in Wireless Cellular Networks
—Recent deregulation initiatives enable cellular providers to sell excess spectrum for secondary usage. In this paper, we investigate the problem of optimal spot pricing of spect...
Huseyin Mutlu, Murat Alanyali, David Starobinski
FOCS
2007
IEEE
16 years 29 days ago
Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda
IWCM
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Bayesian Approaches to Motion-Based Image and Video Segmentation
We present a variational approach for segmenting the image plane into regions of piecewise parametric motion given two or more frames from an image sequence. Our model is based on ...
Daniel Cremers