Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
Background: Protein interactions support cell organization and mediate its response to any specific stimulus. Recent technological advances have produced large data-sets that aim ...
This work introduces novel polynomial algorithms for processing top-k queries in uncertain databases under the generally adopted model of x-relations. An x-relation consists of a n...
Ke Yi, Feifei Li, George Kollios, Divesh Srivastav...
Recent advances in biophotonics have enabled in-vivo, in-situ histopathology for routine clinical applications. The non-invasive nature of these optical `biopsy' techniques, h...
Selen Atasoy, Ben Glocker, Stamatia Giannarou, ...
The Internet is an extremely complex system, and it is essential that we be able to make accurate measurements in order to understand its underlying behavior or to detect improper...
Alden W. Jackson, Walter C. Milliken, Cesar A. San...