Today we see how to use the multiplicative weight update method to solve other problems. In many settings there is a natural way to make local improvements that “make sense.”The multiplicative weight updates analysis from last time (via a simple potential function) allows us to understand and analyse the net effect of such sensible improvements. (Formally, what we are doing in many settings is ...

Today we see how to use the multiplicative weight update method to solve other problems. In many settings there is a natural way to make local improvements that ”make sense.” The multiplicative weight updates analysis from last time (via a simple potential function) allows us to understand and analyse the net effect of such sensible improvements. (Formally, what we are doing in many settings is...

This paper describes the work done in Renmin University of China for the Federated Web Search Track of TREC 2014. We participated in the resource selection task. We used the LDA topic modeling approach to select potentially relevant resources for a given query. The initial results are promising.

In this work, applications of the coupled solid set sprinkler irrigation and crop model AdorSim introduced in the companion paper are presented. The sprinkler irrigation model is based on ballistic theory, while the crop model is based on CropWat. AdorSim was used to evaluate the effect of sprinkler spacing on seasonal irrigation water use (WU) and crop yield. The most relevant results were rel...

In this paper, we describe our use of ethnographic techniques for identifying requirements for a web-based system for automatic updates and data exchange in a financial investment company. During a six-month long internship, we observed stakeholders in their daily work, helped them use the system, and discussed the results of our observations with them. This helped us to define a more complete ...

In the last few years there have been a growing number of studies concerning the introduction of quaternions into neural networks, which demand a faster learning technique with superior performance. In this paper, we propose a fast, but novel quaternionic resilient propagation (H-RPROP) algorithm for high dimensional problems. It achieves significantly faster learning over quaternionic domain b...

Sepsis is the most common cause of neonatal mortality. As per National Neonatal-Perinatal Database (NNPD), 2002-2003, the incidence of neonatal sepsis in India was 30 per 1000 live births. Signs and symptoms of sepsis are nonspecific; therefore empirical antimicrobial therapy is promptly initiated after obtaining appropriate cultures. The early manifestations of neonatal sepsis are vague and il...

In this work we develop techniques that can derive the tumor position from external respiratory surrogates (abdominal surface motion) through periodically updated internal/external correlation. A simple linear function is used to express the correlation between the tumor and surrogate motion. The function parameters are established during a patient setup session with the tumor and surrogate pos...