On Line Polling Information System

Optimal batch service of a polling system under partial information

We consider the optimal scheduling of an infinite.capacity batch server in a N-node ring queueing network, where the controller observes only the length of the queue at which the server is located. For a cost criterion that includes linear holding costs, fixed dispatching costs, and linear service rewards, we prove optimality and monotonicity of threshold scheduling policies.

Adaptive Polling for Information Aggregation

The flourishing of online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) makes it easy to recruit many workers for solving small tasks. We study whether information elicitation and aggregation over a combinatorial space can be achieved by integrating small pieces of potentially imprecise information, gathered from a large number of workers through simple, one-shot interactions in an onlin...

Strategies for Combining On-line and Off-line Information in an On-line Handwriting Recognition System

This paper investigates the cooperation of on-line and off-line handwriting word recognition systems. Our goal is to improve a mature on-line recognition system by exploiting the complementary information present in the off-line representation built from on-line signal. After describing the on-line and off-line HMM based handwriting recognition systems, we propose a formal framework, which allo...

INTERCONTACT: On-line information system on international organizations and conferences

Intercontact is the first on-line information system on international organizations and conerences in all domains. The information is provided by the Union of International Associaions as part of its function since 1910 as a clearinghouse for such information (cf. Yearbook of International Organizations, International Congress Calendar, etc). The system under est contains information on 11,400 ...

I. Design of a Revised On-Line Information Retrieval System