Sequence homologs are an important source of information about proteins. Amino acid profiles, representing the position-specific mutation probabilities found in profiles, are a ri...
Sean O'Rourke, Gal Chechik, Robin Friedman, Eleaza...
In this paper, we present a checkpoint-based scheme to improve the turnaround time of bag-of-tasks applications executed on institutional desktop grids. We propose to share checkp...
We consider symbolic dynamic programming (SDP) for solving Markov Decision Processes (MDP) with factored state and action spaces, where both states and actions are described by se...
Aswin Raghavan, Saket Joshi, Alan Fern, Prasad Tad...
This paper proposes a novel approach for rank level fusion which gives improved performance gain verified by experimental results. In the absence of ranked features and instead of...
Geo-replicated services need an effective way to direct client requests to a particular location, based on performance, load, and cost. This paper presents DONAR, a distributed sy...
Patrick Wendell, Joe Wenjie Jiang, Michael J. Free...