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CANS
2009
Springer
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Improved Garbled Circuit Building Blocks and Applications to Auctions and Computing Minima
Abstract. We consider generic Garbled Circuit (GC)-based techniques for Secure Function Evaluation (SFE) in the semi-honest model. We describe efficient GC constructions for additi...
Vladimir Kolesnikov, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Thomas Sc...
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COCOON
2009
Springer
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On the Diaconis-Gangolli Markov Chain for Sampling Contingency Tables with Cell-Bounded Entries
The problems of uniformly sampling and approximately counting contingency tables have been widely studied, but efficient solutions are only known in special cases. One appealing ap...
Ivona Bezáková, Nayantara Bhatnagar,...
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IDA
2009
Springer
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Two-Way Grouping by One-Way Topic Models
Abstract. We tackle the problem of new users or documents in collaborative filtering. Generalization over users by grouping them into user groups is beneficial when a rating is t...
Eerika Savia, Kai Puolamäki, Samuel Kaski
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CEC
2008
IEEE
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A study on constrained MA using GA and SQP: Analytical vs. finite-difference gradients
— Many deterministic algorithms in the context of constrained optimization require the first-order derivatives, or the gradient vectors, of the objective and constraint function...
Stephanus Daniel Handoko, Chee Keong Kwoh, Yew-Soo...
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ICPP
2008
IEEE
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Fast Source Switching for Gossip-Based Peer-to-Peer Streaming
In this paper we consider gossip-based Peer-to-Peer streaming applications where multiple sources exist and they work serially. More specifically, we tackle the problem of fast s...
Zhenhua Li, Jiannong Cao, Guihai Chen, Yan Liu