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IJON
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
Visual object concept discovery: Observations in congenitally blind children, and a computational approach
Over the course of the first few months of life, our brains accomplish a remarkable feat. They are able to interpret complex visual images so that instead of being just disconnec...
Jake V. Bouvrie, Pawan Sinha
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Towards a Theory of Context Spaces
This paper proposes initial steps towards a conceptual framework for context-aware systems. It is an attempt towards a general context model to aid thinking and describing context...
Amir Padovitz, Seng Wai Loke, Arkady B. Zaslavsky
EDBT
2010
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Efficient computation of trade-off skylines
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
Christoph Lofi, Ulrich Güntzer, Wolf-Tilo Bal...
RTAS
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Kernel Support for Open QoS-Aware Computing
Most research on QoS-aware computing considers systems where code is generally partitioned into separately schedulable tasks with associated timing constraints. In sharp contrast ...
Ronghua Zhang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, John A. Stanko...
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 10 months ago
Fast-Find: A novel computational approach to analyzing combinatorial motifs
Background: Many vital biological processes, including transcription and splicing, require a combination of short, degenerate sequence patterns, or motifs, adjacent to defined seq...
Micah Hamady, Erin Peden, Rob Knight, Ravinder Sin...