We study here Flickr groups in order to see whether they are actual communities or rather essentially thematic clusters. We describe a methodological framework for the analysis of...
Christophe Prieur, Nicolas Pissard, Jean-Samuel Be...
Dynamic programming is introduced to quantize a continuous random variable into a discrete random variable. Quantization is often useful before statistical analysis or reconstruct...
Mingzhou (Joe) Song, Robert M. Haralick, Sté...
We present a fluid flow model to analyze backlog-based CSMA policies. The model is obtained using a CSMA fixed point approximation that has been recently proposed and analyzed. We...
Atilla Eryilmaz, Peter Marbach, Asuman E. Ozdaglar
We present a new approach to bounding the true error rate of a continuous valued classifier based upon PAC-Bayes bounds. The method first constructs a distribution over classifier...
Spores is a push and pull peer-to-peer method of file sharing and storage, making use of publicly available space on the network. A user stores a file by pushing it to a set of pe...