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BMCBI
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Constructing a meaningful evolutionary average at the phylogenetic center of mass
Background: As a consequence of the evolutionary process, data collected from related species tend to be similar. This similarity by descent can obscure subtler signals in the dat...
Eric A. Stone, Arend Sidow
SIGIR
1992
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Classifying News Stories using Memory Based Reasoning
ct tasks such as extraction of relational information from text [Young] [Jacobs]. We describe a method for classifying news stories using Alternative systems [Biebricher] [Lewis] u...
Brij M. Masand, Gordon Linoff, David L. Waltz
WSDM
2009
ACM
187views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Speeding up algorithms on compressed web graphs
A variety of lossless compression schemes have been proposed to reduce the storage requirements of web graphs. One successful approach is virtual node compression [7], in which of...
Chinmay Karande, Kumar Chellapilla, Reid Andersen
STOC
2012
ACM
251views Algorithms» more  STOC 2012»
11 years 9 months ago
Minimax option pricing meets black-scholes in the limit
Option contracts are a type of financial derivative that allow investors to hedge risk and speculate on the variation of an asset’s future market price. In short, an option has...
Jacob Abernethy, Rafael M. Frongillo, Andre Wibiso...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
A globally optimal algorithm for TTD-MDPs
In this paper, we discuss the use of Targeted Trajectory Distribution Markov Decision Processes (TTD-MDPs)—a variant of MDPs in which the goal is to realize a specified distrib...
Sooraj Bhat, David L. Roberts, Mark J. Nelson, Cha...