Abstract: Linear spectral unmixing aims at estimating the number of pure spectral substances, also called endmembers, their spectral signatures, and their abundance fractions in remotely sensed ...

Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

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Since its creation more than two decades ago by Daniel Spielman (above) and Shang-hua Teng, smoothed analysis has been used to analyze performance of algorithms other than the simplex method, ...

Nestled among the impressive domes and spires of Yale University is the simple office of Daniel Spielman. His shelves are lined with tall black notebooks, containing decades of handwritten notes, and ...

Center on Stochastic Modeling, Optimization, and Statistics (COSMOS), The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA. Quantitative decision analysis involves notions of comparison and ...

Patients who are undergoing mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU) often receive a high fraction of inspired oxygen (Fio 2) and have a high arterial oxygen tension. The conservative ...