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BMCBI
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
A computational approach to discovering the functions of bacterial phytochromes by analysis of homolog distributions
Background: Phytochromes are photoreceptors, discovered in plants, that control a wide variety of developmental processes. They have also been found in bacteria and fungi, but for...
Tilman Lamparter
APPROX
2007
Springer
137views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
A Knapsack Secretary Problem with Applications
We consider situations in which a decision-maker with a fixed budget faces a sequence of options, each with a cost and a value, and must select a subset of them online so as to ma...
Moshe Babaioff, Nicole Immorlica, David Kempe, Rob...
ICDCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
Routing Indices For Peer-to-Peer Systems
Finding information in a peer-to-peer system currently requires either a costly and vulnerable central index, or flooding the network with queries. In this paper we introduce the...
Arturo Crespo, Hector Garcia-Molina
GECCO
2008
Springer
137views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Informative sampling for large unbalanced data sets
Selective sampling is a form of active learning which can reduce the cost of training by only drawing informative data points into the training set. This selected training set is ...
Zhenyu Lu, Anand I. Rughani, Bruce I. Tranmer, Jos...
ICCBR
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Meta-case-Based Reasoning: Using Functional Models to Adapt Case-Based Agents
It is useful for an intelligent software agent to be able to adapt to new demands from an environment. Such adaptation can be viewed as a redesign problem; an agent has some origin...
J. William Murdock, Ashok K. Goel