Prophet inequalities consist of many beautiful statements that establish tight performance ratios between online and offline allocation algorithms. Typically, tightness is established by constructing an algorithmic gu...
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The paper analyzes the performance of a new estimation method for vehicle suspensions, which incorporates three parallel Kalman filters and takes into account the nonlinear damper characteristic of the suspension. For...
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(纸本)9781424477456
The paper analyzes the performance of a new estimation method for vehicle suspensions, which incorporates three parallel Kalman filters and takes into account the nonlinear damper characteristic of the suspension. For the performance evaluation, an Extended Kalman filter (nonlinear estimator) is utilized as a benchmark. The estimator structures are tuned by means of a multiobjective genetic optimization algorithm in order to maximize their performance. The advantages of the parallel Kalman filter concept are its low computational effort and good estimation accuracy despite the presence of nonlinearities in the suspension setup. Both estimators are compared to a computationally simple concept that gains the estimates directly from measurement signals by conventional filtering techniques. The performance of the estimators is analyzed in simulations and experiments using a quarter-vehicle test rig and excitation signals gained from measurements of real road profiles.
In this paper, we propose an efficient solution for supporting real-time stream mining applications on heterogeneous systems operating at various processing speeds. Unlike the existing solutions that (1) rely on accur...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479903573
In this paper, we propose an efficient solution for supporting real-time stream mining applications on heterogeneous systems operating at various processing speeds. Unlike the existing solutions that (1) rely on accurate knowledge or prediction of the service demand of each individual service request and (2) only consider a single type of delay constraint (e.g., typically, average or maximum delay), we propose an optimal algorithm, MinEnergy-MD, which determines the processing speeds for all classifiers based on the probability distribution of the service demand to minimize the average energy consumption while simultaneously satisfying multiple delay constraints. We conduct an extensive study to quantify the performance of MinEnergy-MD.
Robust statistical estimators offer resilience against outliers but are often computationally challenging, particularly in high-dimensional sparse settings. Modern optimization techniques are utilized for robust spars...
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This paper presents an algorithm for computing the weights of a loudspeaker array based on a given set of listening locations and their respective desired sound field distribution. We achieve this by introducing the E...
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This paper presents an algorithm for computing the weights of a loudspeaker array based on a given set of listening locations and their respective desired sound field distribution. We achieve this by introducing the E-norm condition number to control the desired sound field distribution for our application. We show that the conditioning of the problem is determined by this E-norm condition number and that part of the computation of this number is independent of frequency. Exploiting this intrinsic property and through the use of an optimization algorithm, we develop an efficient algorithm for the computation of array weights to achieve desired sound field distribution in the spatial domain. The proposed algorithm can also be used to search for a set of alternative listening locations that give rise to a well-conditioned solution for the loudspeaker weights.
This paper considers the problem of planning for linear, Gaussian systems, and extends existing chance constrained optimal control solutions. Due to the imperfect knowledge of the system state caused by process uncert...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781612848006
This paper considers the problem of planning for linear, Gaussian systems, and extends existing chance constrained optimal control solutions. Due to the imperfect knowledge of the system state caused by process uncertainty and sensor noise, the system constraints cannot be guaranteed to be satisfied and consequently must be considered probabilistically. Therefore they are formulated as convex constraints on a Gaussian random variable, with the violation probability of all the constraints guaranteed to be below a threshold. Previous work considered optimizing the feedback controller to shape the uncertainty of the system to facilitate the satisfaction of the stochastic constraints. The joint constraints were bounded using an ellipsoidal relaxation technique which assigns uniform risk to each constraint. However this results in a large amount of conservatism degrading the performance of the overall system. Instead of using the ellipsoidal relaxation technique, this work bounds the joint constraints using Boole's inequality which results in a tighter approximation. The conservatism is further reduced by optimizing the risk assigned to each constraint along with the feedback controller. A two-stage optimization algorithm is proposed that alternates between optimizing the feedback controller and the risk allocation until convergence. This solution methodology is shown to reduce the conservatism in previous approaches and improve the performance of the overall system.
In social commerce services, if the purchase condition for the minimum number of ordered users is satisfied, customers can get a great deal of discount for the corresponding products. The convergence of D2D communicat...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479980895
In social commerce services, if the purchase condition for the minimum number of ordered users is satisfied, customers can get a great deal of discount for the corresponding products. The convergence of D2D communications and the social commerce services may create a synergistic effect because the D2D user can spontaneously relay the advertisement messages to their neighbors. Accordingly, we here propose Wi-Fi Direct based voluntary advertisement dissemination scenario and algorithm (VADA) for social commerce services. By using our proposed VADA algorithm, the small business owners are able to transmit advertisement messages to many local D2D users cost-effectively. Through intensive simulations, we evaluate the performance excellency of our proposed algorithm with respect to total number of successfully received users, average number of relay users, and transmission efficiency compared with conventional algorithms and optimal algorithm based on exhaustive search.
Smart grid pilot projects require a representative subset of the total population to draw relevant conclusions from test results. However, customers willing to participate in such projects are not always representativ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467327275
Smart grid pilot projects require a representative subset of the total population to draw relevant conclusions from test results. However, customers willing to participate in such projects are not always representative to the whole population. Standard random sampling gives some problems because not all results can be scaled. Defining sub-populations or strata to random samples from is theoretically sound, but the definition of sub-populations is quite expensive. The paper presents a customer sampling technique based on quota. The domains for the quota are defined by machine learning algorithms and the quota themselves are based on realistic data. Sampling is done by an optimization algorithm, which eliminates the common'human error'-factor in quota sampling. The approach is a cost efficient and convenient way of sampling that is able to balance the representativeness of the electricity consumption patterns for the population against sampling accuracy. The method has been applied and validated on a large customer data set.
In this paper, fully parallel associative memory architecture with learning model is proposed. It uses a mixed digital-analog associative memory for reference pattern recognition and a learning model based on a short ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)1424415500;1424415519
In this paper, fully parallel associative memory architecture with learning model is proposed. It uses a mixed digital-analog associative memory for reference pattern recognition and a learning model based on a short and long-term memory similar to that in human brain. In addition a ranking mechanism is used to manage the transition of reference vectors between two memories and an optimization algorithm is used to adjust the reference vectors components as well as their distribution continuously. The main advantage of the proposed model is no need to pre-training phase as well as its hardware-friendly structure which makes it implementable by an efficient LSI architecture without requiring a large amount of resources. The system was implemented on an FPGA platform and tested with real data of handwritten and printed English characters and the classification results found satisfactory.
This paper describes the new release of RASR - the open source version of the well-proven speech recognition toolkit developed and used at RWTH Aachen University. The focus is put on the implementation of the NN modul...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479928941
This paper describes the new release of RASR - the open source version of the well-proven speech recognition toolkit developed and used at RWTH Aachen University. The focus is put on the implementation of the NN module for training neural network acoustic models. We describe code design, configuration, and features of the NN module. The key feature is a high flexibility regarding the network topology, choice of activation functions, training criteria, and optimization algorithm, as well as a built-in support for efficient GPU computing. The evaluation of run-time performance and recognition accuracy is performed exemplary with a deep neural network as acoustic model in a hybrid NN/HMM system. The results show that RASR achieves a state-of-the-art performance on a real-world large vocabulary task, while offering a complete pipeline for building and applying large scale speech recognition systems.
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