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ICDE
2011
IEEE
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Monte Carlo query processing of uncertain multidimensional array data
— Array database systems are architected for scientific and engineering applications. In these applications, the value of a cell is often imprecise and uncertain. There are at le...
Tingjian Ge, David Grabiner, Stanley B. Zdonik
TCIAIG
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Monte Carlo Tree Search in Hex
Hex, the classic board game invented by Piet Hein in 1942 and independently by John Nash in 1948, has been a domain of artificial intelligence research since Claude Shannon's ...
Broderick Arneson, Ryan B. Hayward, Philip Henders...
SIAMADS
2010
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Importance Sampling for Dispersion-Managed Solitons
The dispersion-managed nonlinear Schr
Elaine T. Spiller, Gino Biondini
PVLDB
2010
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Fast Incremental and Personalized PageRank
In this paper, we analyze the efficiency of Monte Carlo methods for incremental computation of PageRank, personalized PageRank, and similar random walk based methods (with focus o...
Bahman Bahmani, Abdur Chowdhury, Ashish Goel
JORS
2010
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Monte Carlo scenario generation for retail loan portfolios
Monte Carlo simulation is a common method for studying the volatility of market traded instruments. It is less employed in retail lending, because of the inherent nonlinearities in...
J. L. Breeden, D. Ingram
JMLR
2010
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Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers for Dirichlet Process Mixtures
In this paper, we develop a novel online algorithm based on the Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) samplers framework for posterior inference in Dirichlet Process Mixtures (DPM) (DelMor...
Yener Ülker, Bilge Günsel, Ali Taylan Ce...
TOMACS
2011
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13 years 7 months ago
The double CFTP method
We consider the problem of the exact simulation of random variables Z that satisfy the distributional identity Z L = V Y + (1 − V )Z, where V ∈ [0, 1] and Y are independent, an...
Luc Devroye, Lancelot F. James

Publication
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Monte Carlo Value Iteration for Continuous-State POMDPs
Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) have been successfully applied to various robot motion planning tasks under uncertainty. However, most existing POMDP algo...
Haoyu Bai, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee, and Vien A. Ngo
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 10 months ago
Haplotype association analyses in resources of mixed structure using Monte Carlo testing
Background: Genomewide association studies have resulted in a great many genomic regions that are likely to harbor disease genes. Thorough interrogation of these specific regions ...
Ryan Abo, Jathine Wong, Alun Thomas, Nicola J. Cam...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Parallelization of tau-leap coarse-grained Monte Carlo simulations on GPUs
The Coarse-Grained Monte Carlo (CGMC) method is a multi-scale stochastic mathematical and simulation framework for spatially distributed systems. CGMC simulations are important too...
Lifan Xu, Michela Taufer, Stuart Collins, Dionisio...