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SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A biologically inspired generation of virtual characters
A number of techniques for generating geometric models of human head and body are in use nowadays. Models of human characters are useful in computer games, virtual reality, and ma...
Roberto C. Cavalcante Vieira, Creto Augusto Vidal,...
BMCBI
2005
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13 years 10 months ago
ParPEST: a pipeline for EST data analysis based on parallel computing
Background: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) are short and error-prone DNA sequences generated from the 5' and 3' ends of randomly selected cDNA clones. They provide an im...
Nunzio D'Agostino, Mario Aversano, Maria Luisa Chi...
IMSCCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Frequency Distribution of TATA Box and Extension Sequences on Human Promoters
Background: TATA box is one of the most important transcription factor binding sites. But the exact sequences of TATA box are still not very clear. Results: In this study, we cond...
Wei Shi, Wanlei Zhou
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
Distributed multiagent resource allocation in diminishing marginal return domains
We consider a multiagent resource allocation domain where the marginal production of each resource is diminishing. A set of identical, self-interested agents requires access to sh...
Yoram Bachrach, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
PODC
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Deterministic distributed vertex coloring in polylogarithmic time
Consider an n-vertex graph G = (V, E) of maximum degree ∆, and suppose that each vertex v ∈ V hosts a processor. The processors are allowed to communicate only with their neig...
Leonid Barenboim, Michael Elkin