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BMCBI
2008
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Evolution of biological sequences implies an extreme value distribution of type I for both global and local pairwise alignment s
Background: Confidence in pairwise alignments of biological sequences, obtained by various methods such as Blast or Smith-Waterman, is critical for automatic analyses of genomic d...
Olivier Bastien, Eric Maréchal
COMBINATORICA
2008
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A separation theorem in property testing
Consider the following seemingly rhetorical question: Is it crucial for a property-tester to know the error parameter in advance? Previous papers dealing with various testing prob...
Noga Alon, Asaf Shapira
CORR
2010
Springer
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Group Testing with Probabilistic Tests: Theory, Design and Application
Identification of defective members of large populations has been widely studied in the statistics community under the name of group testing. It involves grouping subsets of items...
Mahdi Cheraghchi, Ali Hormati, Amin Karbasi, Marti...
CORR
2010
Springer
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Dependability in Aggregation by Averaging
Abstract. Aggregation is an important building block of modern distributed applications, allowing the determination of meaningful properties (e.g. network size, total storage capac...
Paulo Jesus, Carlos Baquero, Paulo Sérgio A...
DC
2010
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Refined quorum systems
It is considered good distributed computing practice to devise object implementations that tolerate contention, periods of asynchrony and a large number of failures, but perform f...
Rachid Guerraoui, Marko Vukolic