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GECCO
2006
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Identification of weak motifs in multiple biological sequences using genetic algorithm
Recognition of motifs in multiple unaligned sequences provides an insight into protein structure and function. The task of discovering these motifs is very challenging because mos...
Topon Kumar Paul, Hitoshi Iba
WDAG
2007
Springer
128views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
From Crash-Stop to Permanent Omission: Automatic Transformation and Weakest Failure Detectors
Abstract. This paper studies the impact of omission failures on asynchronous distributed systems with crash-stop failures. We provide two different transformations for algorithms,...
Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Felix C...
EDCC
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Gracefully Degrading Fair Exchange with Security Modules
The fair exchange problem is key to trading electronic items in systems of mutually untrusted parties. In modern variants of such systems, each party is equipped with a security mo...
Gildas Avoine, Felix C. Gärtner, Rachid Guerr...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Improving DPOP with function filtering
DPOP is an algorithm for distributed constraint optimization which has, as main drawback, the exponential size of some of its messages. Recently, some algorithms for distributed c...
Ismel Brito, Pedro Meseguer
HPDC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
FaTLease: scalable fault-tolerant lease negotiation with paxos
A lease is a token which grants its owner exclusive access to a resource for a defined span of time. In order to be able to tolerate failures, leases need to be coordinated by di...
Felix Hupfeld, Björn Kolbeck, Jan Stender, Mi...