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AI
2011
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Bounded approximate decentralised coordination via the max-sum algorithm
In this paper we propose a novel approach to decentralised coordination, that is able to efficiently compute solutions with a guaranteed approximation ratio. Our approach is base...
Alex Rogers, Alessandro Farinelli, Ruben Stranders...
SDM
2012
SIAM
285views Data Mining» more  SDM 2012»
13 years 9 months ago
A Novel Approximation to Dynamic Time Warping allows Anytime Clustering of Massive Time Series Datasets
Given the ubiquity of time series data, the data mining community has spent significant time investigating the best time series similarity measure to use for various tasks and dom...
Qiang Zhu 0002, Gustavo E. A. P. A. Batista, Thana...
RANDOM
1998
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Using Approximation Hardness to Achieve Dependable Computation
Abstract. Redundancy has been utilized to achieve fault tolerant computation and to achieve reliable communication in networks of processors. These techniques can only be extended ...
Mike Burmester, Yvo Desmedt, Yongge Wang
VLDB
2005
ACM
109views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
16 years 6 months ago
Model-based approximate querying in sensor networks
Abstract Declarative queries are proving to be an attractive paradigm for interacting with networks of wireless sensors. The metaphor that "the sensornet is a database" i...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Samuel Madden, Jo...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Approximating true relevance distribution from a mixture model based on irrelevance data
Pseudo relevance feedback (PRF), which has been widely applied in IR, aims to derive a distribution from the top n pseudo relevant documents D. However, these documents are often ...
Peng Zhang, Yuexian Hou, Dawei Song