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CONSTRAINTS
2008
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Efficient Sequence Alignment with Side-Constraints by Cluster Tree Elimination
Aligning DNA and protein sequences is a core technique in molecular biology. Often, it is desirable to include partial prior knowledge and conditions in an alignment. Going beyond...
Sebastian Will, Anke Busch, Rolf Backofen
CORR
2010
Springer
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The Motif Tracking Algorithm
: The search for patterns or motifs in data represents a problem area of key interest to finance and economic researchers. In this paper we introduce the Motif Tracking Algorithm, ...
William O. Wilson, Phil Birkin, Uwe Aickelin
CORR
2010
Springer
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The Deterministic Dendritic Cell Algorithm
Abstract. The Dendritic Cell Algorithm is an immune-inspired algorithm originally based on the function of natural dendritic cells. The original instantiation of the algorithm is a...
Julie Greensmith, Uwe Aickelin
CORR
2010
Springer
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New Results on Quantum Property Testing
We present several new examples of speed-ups obtainable by quantum algorithms in the context of property testing. First, motivated by sampling algorithms, we consider probability d...
Sourav Chakraborty, Eldar Fischer, Arie Matsliah, ...
CORR
2010
Springer
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Evolution with Drifting Targets
We consider the question of the stability of evolutionary algorithms to gradual changes, or drift, in the target concept. We define an algorithm to be resistant to drift if, for s...
Varun Kanade, Leslie G. Valiant, Jennifer Wortman ...
CORR
2010
Springer
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Learning High-Dimensional Markov Forest Distributions: Analysis of Error Rates
The problem of learning forest-structured discrete graphical models from i.i.d. samples is considered. An algorithm based on pruning of the Chow-Liu tree through adaptive threshol...
Vincent Y. F. Tan, Animashree Anandkumar, Alan S. ...
COMGEO
2008
ACM
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Optimal location of transportation devices
We consider algorithms for finding the optimal location of a simple transportation device, that we call a moving walkway, consisting of a pair of points in the plane between which ...
Jean Cardinal, Sébastien Collette, Ferran H...
COMGEO
2008
ACM
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Approximation of an open polygonal curve with a minimum number of circular arcs and biarcs
We present an algorithm for approximating a given open polygonal curve with a minimum number of circular arcs. In computer-aided manufacturing environments, the paths of cutting t...
Robert L. Scot Drysdale, Günter Rote, Astrid ...
CORR
2010
Springer
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Settling the Polynomial Learnability of Mixtures of Gaussians
Given data drawn from a mixture of multivariate Gaussians, a basic problem is to accurately estimate the mixture parameters. We give an algorithm for this problem that has running ...
Ankur Moitra, Gregory Valiant
CORR
2010
Springer
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Experimenting with Innate Immunity
libtissue is a software system for implementing and testing AIS algorithms on real-world computer security problems. AIS algorithms are implemented as a collection of cells, antig...
Jamie Twycross, Uwe Aickelin