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AIME
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Variable Selection for Optimal Decision Making
This paper discusses variable selection for medical decision making; in particular decisions regarding when to provide treatment and which treatment to provide. Current variable se...
Lacey Gunter, Ji Zhu, Susan Murphy
PARELEC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
MPI and Non-MPI Simulations for Epitaxial Surface Growth
Usually, theories of surface growth are based on the study of global processes without taking in account the local behaviour of atoms. We have implemented two Montecarlo simulation...
Carmen B. Navarrete, Susana Holgado, Eloy Anguiano
WAW
2004
Springer
150views Algorithms» more  WAW 2004»
14 years 23 days ago
Do Your Worst to Make the Best: Paradoxical Effects in PageRank Incremental Computations
d Abstract) Paolo Boldi† Massimo Santini‡ Sebastiano Vigna∗ Deciding which kind of visit accumulates high-quality pages more quickly is one of the most often debated issue i...
Paolo Boldi, Massimo Santini, Sebastiano Vigna
STOC
2000
ACM
174views Algorithms» more  STOC 2000»
13 years 11 months ago
Noise-tolerant learning, the parity problem, and the statistical query model
We describe a slightly subexponential time algorithm for learning parity functions in the presence of random classification noise, a problem closely related to several cryptograph...
Avrim Blum, Adam Kalai, Hal Wasserman
RANDOM
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Using Approximation Hardness to Achieve Dependable Computation
Abstract. Redundancy has been utilized to achieve fault tolerant computation and to achieve reliable communication in networks of processors. These techniques can only be extended ...
Mike Burmester, Yvo Desmedt, Yongge Wang