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The conventional crowdsourcing paradigm requires an explicit task description and payment scheme. Requesters can then easily determine whether the crowdsourced results are satisfactory, and workers will have a fairly clear expectation of the monetary reward once the task is accomplished. However, such a paradigm becomes problematic when it is applied to Object Identification (OI) tasks. First, for...
Volt/Var Optimization (VVO) technology helps to ensure that power is delivered to customers at optimal power factor to minimize line loss and maintain acceptable voltage at all points along the distribution feeder. Meanwhile, applying Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) will lower the customer's peak demand to conserve more energy. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) realizes the voltage monitoring...
Most Online Social Networks (OSNs) allow registered members to leave comments on particular entities. An entity can either be a person, a location, or a product. These comments have already become an important reference for many people in the daily life. However, a popular entity usually receives an extensive number of comments and it has become infeasible for users to read through all of them. In...
In this paper, a bi-dimensional search method is proposed for unconstrained optimization problems. Traditional methods for solving the unconstrained optimization problems are usually based on one-dimensional search (or line search) to determine the step size as these methods only use one descent direction in each iteration. When two search directions are available in each iteration, conventional one-dimensional...
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