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WDAG
2005
Springer
103views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2005»
15 years 9 months ago
Adaptive Software Transactional Memory
Software Transactional Memory (STM) is a generic synchronization construct that enables automatic conversion of correct sequential objects into correct nonblocking concurrent obje...
Virendra J. Marathe, William N. Scherer III, Micha...
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IWVF
2001
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Head Model Acquisition from Silhouettes
This paper describes a practical system developed for generating 3D models of human heads from silhouettes alone. The input to the system is an image sequence acquired from circula...
Kwan-Yee Kenneth Wong, Paulo R. S. Mendonça...
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SIGMOD
2000
ACM
141views Database» more  SIGMOD 2000»
15 years 8 months ago
Counting, Enumerating, and Sampling of Execution Plans in a Cost-Based Query Optimizer
Testing an SQL database system by running large sets of deterministic or stochastic SQL statements is common practice in commercial database development. However, code defects oft...
Florian Waas, César A. Galindo-Legaria
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CIAC
2000
Springer
118views Algorithms» more  CIAC 2000»
15 years 8 months ago
Speeding Up Pattern Matching by Text Compression
Abstract. Byte pair encoding (BPE) is a simple universal text compression scheme. Decompression is very fast and requires small work space. Moreover, it is easy to decompress an ar...
Yusuke Shibata, Takuya Kida, Shuichi Fukamachi, Ma...
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IPPS
1999
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Parallel Biological Sequence Comparison Using Prefix Computations
We present practical parallel algorithms using prefix computations for various problems that arise in pairwise comparison of biological sequences. We consider both constant and af...
Srinivas Aluru, Natsuhiko Futamura, Kishan Mehrotr...