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IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Comparative Study of Parallel Metaheuristics for Protein Structure Prediction on the Computational Grid
A comparative study of parallel metaheuristics executed in grid environments is proposed, having as case study a genetic algorithm, a simulated annealing algorithm and a random se...
Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghaza...
CRYPTO
2006
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Anonymous Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption (Without Random Oracles)
We present an identity-based cryptosystem that features fully anonymous ciphertexts and hierarchical key delegation. We give a proof of security in the standard model, based on the...
Xavier Boyen, Brent Waters
AI
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Soft arc consistency revisited
The Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problem (VCSP) is a generic optimization problem defined by a network of local cost functions defined over discrete variables. It has applicatio...
Martin C. Cooper, Simon de Givry, M. Sanchez, Thom...
AP2PC
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks: Topological Properties and Search Performance
Performing efficient decentralized search is a fundamental problem in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems. There has been a significant amount of research recently on developing robust sel...
George H. L. Fletcher, Hardik A. Sheth, Katy B&oum...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Smoothing clickthrough data for web search ranking
Incorporating features extracted from clickthrough data (called clickthrough features) has been demonstrated to significantly improve the performance of ranking models for Web sea...
Jianfeng Gao, Wei Yuan, Xiao Li, Kefeng Deng, Jian...