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BMCBI
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
A replica exchange Monte Carlo algorithm for protein folding in the HP model
Background: The ab initio protein folding problem consists of predicting protein tertiary structure from a given amino acid sequence by minimizing an energy function; it is one of...
Chris Thachuk, Alena Shmygelska, Holger H. Hoos
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 3 months ago
Monte Carlo Methods for Top-k Personalized PageRank Lists and Name Disambiguation
We study a problem of quick detection of top-k Personalized PageRank lists. This problem has a number of important applications such as finding local cuts in large graphs, estima...
Konstantin Avrachenkov, Nelly Litvak, Danil Nemiro...
CGF
2008
137views more  CGF 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Exploiting Visibility Correlation in Direct Illumination
The visibility function in direct illumination describes the binary visibility over a light source, e.g., an environment map. Intuitively, the visibility is often strongly correla...
Petrik Clarberg, Tomas Akenine-Möller
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Average task times in usability tests: what to report?
The distribution of task time data in usability studies is positively skewed. Practitioners who are aware of this positive skew tend to report the sample median. Monte Carlo simul...
Jeff Sauro, James R. Lewis
SAC
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Parallel multivariate slice sampling
Slice sampling provides an easily implemented method for constructing a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. However, slice sampling has two major drawbacks: (i) it requires...
Matthew M. Tibbits, Murali Haran, John C. Liechty