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DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Electing an Eventual Leader in an Asynchronous Shared Memory System
This paper considers the problem of electing an eventual leader in an asynchronous shared memory system. While this problem has received a lot of attention in messagepassing syste...
Antonio Fernández, Ernesto Jiménez, ...
JC
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
BDDC methods for discontinuous Galerkin discretization of elliptic problems
A discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization of Dirichlet problem for second-order elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients in 2-D is considered. For this discretization...
Maksymilian Dryja, Juan Galvis, Marcus Sarkis
AIMSA
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Using Text Segmentation to Enhance the Cluster Hypothesis
An alternative way to tackle Information Retrieval, called Passage Retrieval, considers text fragments independently rather than assessing global relevance of documents. In such a ...
Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat,...
AIME
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Data-Efficient Information-Theoretic Test Selection
We use the concept of conditional mutual information (MI) to approach problems involving the selection of variables in the area of medical diagnosis. Computing MI requires estimate...
Marianne Mueller, Rómer Rosales, Harald Ste...
ICML
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Learning first-order probabilistic models with combining rules
Many real-world domains exhibit rich relational structure and stochasticity and motivate the development of models that combine predicate logic with probabilities. These models de...
Sriraam Natarajan, Prasad Tadepalli, Eric Altendor...