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SYNTHESE
2011
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15 years 25 days ago
The philosophy of simulation: hot new issues or same old stew?
Computer simulations are an exciting tool that plays important roles in many scientific disciplines. This has attracted the attention of a number of philosophers of science. The m...
Roman Frigg, Julian Reiss
STOC
2003
ACM
110views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
16 years 6 months ago
New degree bounds for polynomial threshold functions
A real multivariate polynomial p(x1, . . . , xn) is said to sign-represent a Boolean function f : {0, 1}n {-1, 1} if the sign of p(x) equals f(x) for all inputs x {0, 1}n. We gi...
Ryan O'Donnell, Rocco A. Servedio
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
136views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
15 years 5 months ago
A new paradigm for programming competitions
The annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest produces a competitive paradigm that is at odds with the pedagogical goals of modern computer science and software engi...
James F. Bowring
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Predicting tie strength in a new medium
We have friends we consider very close and acquaintances we barely know. The social sciences use the term tie strength to denote this differential closeness with the people in our...
Eric Gilbert
ICALP
2009
Springer
16 years 6 months ago
Fast FAST
We present a randomized subexponential time, polynomial space parameterized algorithm for the k-Weighted Feedback Arc Set in Tournaments (k-FAST) problem. We also show that our alg...
Noga Alon, Daniel Lokshtanov, Saket Saurabh