Sciweavers

1089 search results - page 210 / 218
» Randomness and Reducibility
Sort
View
COMPLEXITY
2004
165views more  COMPLEXITY 2004»
13 years 7 months ago
Sex promotes gamete selection: A quantitative comparative study of features favoring the evolution of sex
: Explaining the maintenance of sexual reproduction remains one of the greatest challenges in biology. The theoretical oddity of sex is based on at least three advantages that asex...
Klaus Jaffe
PAMI
2000
142views more  PAMI 2000»
13 years 7 months ago
Evolutionary Pursuit and Its Application to Face Recognition
Abstract-- This paper introduces Evolutionary Pursuit (EP) as a novel and adaptive representation method for image encoding and classification. In analogy to projection pursuit met...
Chengjun Liu, Harry Wechsler
JCC
2002
127views more  JCC 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Effective Born radii in the generalized Born approximation: The importance of being perfect
: Generalized Born (GB) models provide, for many applications, an accurate and computationally facile estimate of the electrostatic contribution to aqueous solvation. The GB models...
Alexey Onufriev, David A. Case, Donald Bashford
JCB
1998
129views more  JCB 1998»
13 years 7 months ago
A Sticker-Based Model for DNA Computation
We introduce a new model of molecular computation that we call the sticker model. Like many previous proposals it makes use of DNA strands as the physical substrate in which infor...
Sam T. Roweis, Erik Winfree, Richard Burgoyne, Nic...
SIAMCOMP
1998
125views more  SIAMCOMP 1998»
13 years 7 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs, and Nonapproximability-Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs (PCPs) and the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on p...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan