Abstract: Optical burst switching (OBS) provides a future-proof alternative to the current electronic switching in the backbone. In this letter, we study a horizon-based single-channel multi-class OBS ...

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What would Thomas Bayes think? In 1763, he proposed a new approach to calculate probabilities. An international team has now updated his ideas to deliver a quantum Bayes' rule. (Courtesy: Centre for ...

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The Bayesian approach to statistical inference and other data analysis tasks gets its name from Bayes’s theorem (BT). BT specifies that a posterior probability for a hypothesis concerning a data ...

Chaos may be behind the brain's ability to compute probabilities, according to a new analysis by two neuroscientists at RIKEN. The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

While foreign semiconductor companies have grabbed most of the spotlight at Computex 2024, Taiwanese IC design companies, such as MediaTek, Realtek Semiconductor, and Elan Microelectronics, have also ...