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BIRTHDAY
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Why Sets?
Sets play a key role in foundations of mathematics. Why? To what extent is it an accident of history? Imagine that you have a chance to talk to mathematicians from a far-away plane...
Andreas Blass
ESA
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Classroom Examples of Robustness Problems in Geometric Computations
The algorithms of computational geometry are designed for a machine model with exact real arithmetic. Substituting floating-point arithmetic for the assumed real arithmetic may c...
Lutz Kettner, Kurt Mehlhorn, Sylvain Pion, Stefan ...
IUI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The why UI: using goal networks to improve user interfaces
People interact with interfaces to accomplish goals, and knowledge about human goals can be useful for building intelligent user interfaces. We suggest that modeling high, human-l...
Dustin Arthur Smith, Henry Lieberman
JUCS
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
What is Correctness of Security Protocols?
: As soon as major protocol flaws were discovered empirically -- a good luck that is not older than the early 1990s -- this title question came up to the world. It was soon realise...
Giampaolo Bella
COLT
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Model Selection and Stability in k-means Clustering
Clustering Stability methods are a family of widely used model selection techniques applied in data clustering. Their unifying theme is that an appropriate model should result in ...
Ohad Shamir, Naftali Tishby