In the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem there are k distributions associated with the rewards of playing each of k strategies (slot machine arms). The reward distributions are ini...
Background: The protein structure prediction problem is one of the most challenging problems in biological sciences. Many approaches have been proposed using database information ...
Recent research studied the problem of publishing microdata without revealing sensitive information, leading to the privacy preserving paradigms of k-anonymity and -diversity. k-a...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panagiotis Karras, Panos Kalnis, ...
In the networking research literature, the problem of network utility optimization is often converted to the dual problem which, due to nondifferentiability, is solved with a part...
Given the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple search engines in response to a given query, the problem of metasearch is to combine these lists in a way which optimizes ...