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BIOINFORMATICS
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Improving protein secondary structure prediction using a simple k-mer model
Motivation: Existing methods for protein sequence analysis are generally firstorder and inherently assume that each position is independent. We develop a general framework for int...
Martin Madera, Ryan Calmus, Grant Thiltgen, Kevin ...
COLT
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Improved Boosting Algorithms using Confidence-Rated Predictions
Abstract. We describe several improvements to Freund and Schapire's AdaBoost boosting algorithm, particularly in a setting in which hypotheses may assign confidences to each o...
Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer
EDM
2009
132views Data Mining» more  EDM 2009»
13 years 5 months ago
Predicting Students Drop Out: A Case Study
The monitoring and support of university freshmen is considered very important at many educational institutions. In this paper we describe the results of the educational data minin...
Gerben Dekker, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Jan Vleeshouwer...
SIGMETRICS
2011
ACM
196views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Autocorrelation analysis: a new and improved method for measuring branch predictability
Branch taken rate and transition rate have been proposed as metrics to characterize the branch predictability. However, these two metrics may misclassify branches with regular his...
Jian Chen, Lizy Kurian John
ISER
2004
Springer
158views Robotics» more  ISER 2004»
14 years 25 days ago
Collective Inspection of Regular Structures using a Swarm of Miniature Robots
We present a series of experiments concerned with the inspection of regular, engineered structures carried out using swarms of five to twenty autonomous, miniature robots, solely ...
Nikolaus Correll, Alcherio Martinoli