What is optimal in optimal inference?

What Is Optimal?

How reasonable is our insistence on optimal solutions? Not too long ago we were content with designing systems which merely met given specifications. It was primarily Wiener’s work on optimal filtering and prediction that changed profoundly this attitude toward the design of systems and their components. Today we tend, perhaps, to make a fetish of optimality. If a system is not “best” in one se...

what is the optimal test for diagnosis of latent tuberculosis?

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What is an Optimal Diagnosis?

Within diagnostic reasoning there have been a numb�r of proposed definitions of a diagnosis, and of an opti­ mal or most likely diagnosis. These include most prob­ able posterior hypothesis, most probable interpretation, most probable covering hypothesis, etc. Most of these approaches assume that the most likely diagnosis must be computed, and that a definition of what should be computed can be...

What Is Optimal Risk Adjustment ?

What is optimal scheduling in wireless networks?

We consider a wireless network consisting of multiple transmitters with multicast traffic destined for a set of receivers. We are interested in the problem of joint scheduling and rate control under two performance objectives; the objective of maximizing the total sum throughput of the network and of being proportionally fair with respect to the received rate at each receiver. We first consider...