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ICRA
2007
IEEE
148views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Simple, Robust Autonomous Grasping in Unstructured Environments
—The inherent uncertainty associated with unstructured grasping tasks makes establishing a successful grasp difficult. Traditional approaches to this problem involve hands that a...
Aaron M. Dollar, Robert D. Howe
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
320views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Market making and mean reversion
Market making refers broadly to trading strategies that seek to profit by providing liquidity to other traders, while avoiding accumulating a large net position in a stock. In th...
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Michael Kearns
P2P
2008
IEEE
137views Communications» more  P2P 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Hierarchical Codes: How to Make Erasure Codes Attractive for Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems
Redundancy is the basic technique to provide reliability in storage systems consisting of multiple components. A redundancy scheme defines how the redundant data are produced and...
Alessandro Duminuco, Ernst Biersack
BMCBI
2005
130views more  BMCBI 2005»
13 years 7 months ago
Squid - a simple bioinformatics grid
Background: BLAST is a widely used genetic research tool for analysis of similarity between nucleotide and protein sequences. This paper presents a software application entitled &...
Paulo C. Carvalho, Rafael V. Glória, Antoni...
PODS
2011
ACM
238views Database» more  PODS 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Beyond simple aggregates: indexing for summary queries
Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...
Zhewei Wei, Ke Yi