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JMLR
2010
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SFO: A Toolbox for Submodular Function Optimization
In recent years, a fundamental problem structure has emerged as very useful in a variety of machine learning applications: Submodularity is an intuitive diminishing returns proper...
Andreas Krause
FSTTCS
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Computing Rational Radical Sums in Uniform TC^0
A fundamental problem in numerical computation and computational geometry is to determine the sign of arithmetic expressions in radicals. Here we consider the simpler problem of d...
Paul Hunter, Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, Jo&e...
TON
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Utility-based rate control in the Internet for elastic traffic
In a communication network, a good rate allocation algorithm should reflect the utilities of the users while being fair. We investigate this fundamental problem of achieving the sy...
Richard J. La, Venkat Anantharam
JC
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
Finding at Least One Point in Each Connected Component of a Real Algebraic Set Defined by a Single Equation
Deciding efficiently the emptiness of a real algebraic set defined by a single equation is a fundamental problem of computational real algebraic geometry. We propose an algorithm ...
Fabrice Rouillier, Marie-Françoise Roy, Moh...
TCS
2008
13 years 4 months ago
A note on the problem of reporting maximal cliques
Reporting the maximal cliques of a graph is a fundamental problem arising in many areas. This note bridges the gap between three papers addressing this problem: the original paper...
Frédéric Cazals, Chinmay Karande
JCST
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
New Information Distance Measure and Its Application in Question Answering System
In a question answering (QA) system, the fundamental problem is how to measure the distance between a question and an answer, hence ranking different answers. We demonstrate that s...
Xian Zhang, Yu Hao, Xiaoyan Zhu, Ming Li
IJFCS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Identifying Rhythms in Musical Texts
A fundamental problem in music is to classify songs according to their rhythm. A rhythm is represented by a sequence of "Quick" (Q) and "Slow" (S) symbols, whi...
Manolis Christodoulakis, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Moh...
CORR
2006
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
A Formal Measure of Machine Intelligence
A fundamental problem in artificial intelligence is that nobody really knows what intelligence is. The problem is especially acute when we need to consider artificial systems whic...
Shane Legg, Marcus Hutter
COGSCI
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Dynamics of Phonological Cognition
A fundamental problem in spoken language is the duality between the continuous aspects of phonetic performance and the discrete aspects of phonological competence. We study 2 inst...
Adamantios I. Gafos, Stefan Benus
ENTCS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
An Algorithm for Approximating the Satisfiability Problem of High-level Conditions
The satisfiability problem is the fundamental problem in proving the conflict-freeness of specifications, or in finding a counterexample for an invalid statement. In this paper, w...
Karl-Heinz Pennemann