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CLOUD
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Towards automatic optimization of MapReduce programs
Timely and cost-effective processing of large datasets has become a critical ingredient for the success of many academic, government, and industrial organizations. The combination...
Shivnath Babu
PROPOR
2010
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Voice Quality of European Portuguese Emotional Speech
An acoustic analysis was conducted to investigate parameters related to Voice Quality in European Portuguese (EP) speech conveying several emotions. Our main objectives were: to o...
Ana Nunes, Rosa Lídia Coimbra, Antón...
ILP
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Complexity Parameters for First-Order Classes
We study several complexity parameters for first order formulas and their suitability for first order learning models. We show that the standard notion of size is not captured by...
Marta Arias, Roni Khardon
GECCO
2003
Springer
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Evaluation of Parameter Sensitivity for Portable Embedded Systems through Evolutionary Techniques
Power consumption and portability issues are becoming increasingly significant in embedded system architectures. Therefore, it is important that chip architects and integrated circ...
James Northern III, Michael A. Shanblatt
FCT
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Graph Searching, Elimination Trees, and a Generalization of Bandwidth
The bandwidth minimization problem has a long history and a number of practical applications. In this paper we introduce a natural extension of bandwidth to partially ordered layo...
Fedor V. Fomin, Pinar Heggernes, Jan Arne Telle
UIST
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
User interface continuations
Dialog boxes that collect parameters for commands often create ephemeral, unnatural interruptions of a program’s normal execution flow, encouraging the user to complete the dial...
Dennis Quan, David Huynh, David R. Karger, Robert ...
ICTAI
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Adaptive Modeling of Biochemical Pathways
In bioinformatics, biochemical pathways can be modeled by many differential equations. It is still an open problem how to fit the huge amount of parameters of the equations to the...
Rüdiger W. Brause
GLVLSI
2003
IEEE
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RF CMOS circuit optimizing procedure and synthesis tool
In this paper, we discuss a methodology to design and synthesize analog CMOS components such as RF amplifiers. The inputs of the synthesis tool are the circuit specifications desc...
Chandrasekar Rajagopal, Karthik Sridhar, Adrian Nu...
PPSN
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Optimization via Parameter Mapping with Genetic Programming
Abstract. This paper describes a new approach for parameter optimization that uses a novel representation for the parameters to be optimized. By using genetic programming, the new ...
João Carlos Figueira Pujol, Riccardo Poli
ICIAR
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Real-Time Facial Feature Extraction by Cascaded Parameter Prediction and Image Optimization
We propose a new fast facial-feature extraction technique for embedded face-recognition applications. A deformable feature model is adopted, of which the parameters are optimized t...
Fei Zuo, Peter H. N. de With