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SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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Truthful germs are contagious: a local to global characterization of truthfulness
We study the question of how to easily recognize whether a social unction f from an abstract type space to a set of outcomes is truthful, i.e. implementable by a truthful mechanis...
Aaron Archer, Robert Kleinberg
AI
2005
Springer
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Knowledge updates: Semantics and complexity issues
We consider the problem of how an agent's knowledge can be updated. We propose a formal method of knowledge update on the basis of the semantics of modal logic S5. In our met...
Chitta Baral, Yan Zhang
BMCBI
2005
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Species-specific analysis of protein sequence motifs using mutual information
Background: Protein sequence motifs are by definition short fragments of conserved amino acids, often associated with a specific function. Accordingly protein sequence profiles de...
Jan Hummel, Nima Keshvari, Wolfram Weckwerth, Joac...
CSDA
2007
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A note on iterative marginal optimization: a simple algorithm for maximum rank correlation estimation
The maximum rank correlation (MRC) estimator was originally studied by Han [1987. Nonparametric analysis of a generalized regression model. J. Econometrics 35, 303–316] and Sher...
Hansheng Wang
JASIS
2000
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The conduit metaphor and the nature and politics of information studies
: This article examines information theory from the aspect of its "conduit metaphor." A historical approach and a close reading of certain texts by Warren Weaver and Nor...
Ronald E. Day