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GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
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Swarming to rank for information retrieval
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
IEEEPACT
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A tuning framework for software-managed memory hierarchies
Achieving good performance on a modern machine with a multi-level memory hierarchy, and in particular on a machine with software-managed memories, requires precise tuning of progr...
Manman Ren, Ji Young Park, Mike Houston, Alex Aike...
IROS
2008
IEEE
119views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
A relative information metric for vehicle following systems
— Vehicle following can be achieved by minimizing the relative information (Kullback-Leibler or K-L distance), between the estimated poses of leader and follower vehicles by form...
Teck Chew Ng, Martin David Adams, Javier Ibanez Gu...
SECON
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Breath: A Self-Adapting Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks in Control and Automation
—The novel cross-layer protocol Breath for wireless sensor networks is designed, implemented, and experimentally evaluated. The Breath protocol is based on randomized routing, MA...
Pan Gun Park, Carlo Fischione, Alvise Bonivento, K...
SP
2008
IEEE
100views Security Privacy» more  SP 2008»
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Towards Practical Privacy for Genomic Computation
Many basic tasks in computational biology involve operations on individual DNA and protein sequences. These sequences, even when anonymized, are vulnerable to re-identification a...
Somesh Jha, Louis Kruger, Vitaly Shmatikov