Expectation-maximization algorithm

Athletes are at the mercy of what the Media says about them. The Media will report anything that enables them to gain more viewers. The negative attention that athletes receive from the Media contributes to their diminishing performance, unrealistic expectations, and complete destruction of their athletic career. First, when athletes first begin receiving negative media coverage, their diminishing athletic performance is very observable. Stress is a gargantuan contributor to decreasing athletic…

solution without the need to examine the graphical representation. The need for an algorithm that would perform such process was essential in the early days of the formulations of linear programming problems. Although challenging, the task was accomplished by a mathematician of the twentieth century. In 1947, George Dantzig developed a process that assisted in computing optimal solutions for minimization and maximization linear programming problems, this method is known as the simplex method…

Beam search is an informed algorithm for searching a graph that extends the Breadth-First search (Jungwirth, 2006). The Breadth-First search is essentially a special-case Best-First search where the evaluation function, f(n) is the same as the heuristics function, h(n) (JONES, 2008). Therefore in order to properly discuss Beam search, there is the need for a brief introduction to Best-First algorithm. The Best-First search traverses a tree from top to bottom and searches for nodes on the same…

related issues. Cloud robotics which is one of the algorithmic processes is a good example of what can be attained using algorithms. This paper is bent on focusing on practical differences in which algorithms are used in solving problems (phishing) through in-depth understanding of the problem and then formulating it as well as using comparative analysis in the same. Introduction Algorithm brings together values taken up as input which produces some other value or a set of values which implies…

“Microarchitectural analysis of image quality assessment algorithms” and “PLP: A Community Driven Open Source Platform for Computer Engineering Education” THARUN NIRANJAN GOMUDURAI PANDIAN, Arizona State University The research paper titled, “Microarchitectural analysis of image quality assessment algorithms“, aims to improve the efficiency of image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms by analyzing the runtime efficiency of the algorithms and identifying the underlying hardware bottlenecks…

UnLike AETG, pairs in PROW can either be visited once, more than once or not visited. This result occurred because PROW support constarint in their algorithm. CTWeb is a combinational testing tool for web application. The relationship between CTWeb and PROW is, CTWeb implemented PROW algorithm along with other algorithms in their development. Test parameter and parameter value was insert into CTWeb in two ways, manually or upload the value file. CTWeb also support constraints and weight…

losses due to multipath propagation, further leading to intersymbol interference. These conditions compromise the integrity of the information transmitted. This paper explores the Viterbi algorithm used to combat error bounds in convolutional codes, and develops a MATLAB-based alternative model of the algorithm for continuous time applications that is shown to significantly diminish the effects of intersymbol interference in the wireless transmission of a signal. I. INTRODUCTION Wireless…

J Intell Robot Syst (2013) 69:131–146 137 for optimum performance in an iterative fashion. Lastly, from the two concepts, one of them is se- lected in terms of performance, manufacturability and cost. The initial analysis of the wing geometry de- sign process is performed by using the program XFLR5 . XFLR5 utilizes Vortex-Lattice-Method which gives preliminary results from which the configurations can be compared. After the optimization of these two different wing…

Rationale: In creating the three SLO’s for this unit, the various needs of the students in this classroom were carefully considered. The three SLO’s are attainable and observable for these students in the timeframe provided for this unit. Accommodations will be provided to make the SLO attainable for each student in the class. Based on the students’ previous assessment data and their performance during previous units, these SLO’s can be achieved within this unit. The unit should take between…

I. INTRODUCTION The performance of present computing systems has increased at the cost of considerably enlarged power consumption. The increased power consumption either reduces the operation time for battery powered systems, such as hand-held mobile systems, or generates extreme amount of heat and requires expensive sophisticated packaging and cooling technologies, especially for complex systems that consist of several processing units. The generated heat, if not efficiently removed, can also…