Sciweavers

1806 search results - page 194 / 362
» Randomness and halting probabilities
Sort
View
202
Voted
AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
Logistic Methods for Resource Selection Functions and Presence-Only Species Distribution Models
In order to better protect and conserve biodiversity, ecologists use machine learning and statistics to understand how species respond to their environment and to predict how they...
Steven Phillips, Jane Elith
144
Voted
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Synthesizing Stochasticity in Biochemical Systems
Randomness is inherent to biochemistry: at each instant, the sequence of reactions that fires is a matter of chance. Some biological systems exploit such randomness, choosing betw...
Brian Fett, Jehoshua Bruck, Marc D. Riedel
126
Voted
STOC
2007
ACM
101views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
16 years 4 months ago
The price of privacy and the limits of LP decoding
This work is at the intersection of two lines of research. One line, initiated by Dinur and Nissim, investigates the price, in accuracy, of protecting privacy in a statistical dat...
Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kunal Talwar
130
Voted
STOC
2002
ACM
112views Algorithms» more  STOC 2002»
16 years 4 months ago
Wait-free consensus with infinite arrivals
A randomized algorithm is given that solves the wait-free consensus problem for a shared-memory model with infinitely many processes. The algorithm is based on a weak shared coin ...
James Aspnes, Gauri Shah, Jatin Shah
204
Voted
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
138views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 3 months ago
Sampling time-based sliding windows in bounded space
Random sampling is an appealing approach to build synopses of large data streams because random samples can be used for a broad spectrum of analytical tasks. Users are often inter...
Rainer Gemulla, Wolfgang Lehner