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IPPS
1998
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Migration and Rollback Transparency for Arbitrary Distributed Applications in Workstation Clusters
Programmers and users of compute intensive scientific applications often do not want to (or even cannot) code load balancing and fault tolerance into their programs. The PBEAM syst...
Stefan Petri, Matthias Bolz, Horst Langendörf...
DCC
2006
IEEE
16 years 4 days ago
The B-coder: An Improved Binary Arithmetic Coder and Probability Estimator
In this paper we present the B-coder, an efficient binary arithmetic coder that performs extremely well on a wide range of data. The B-coder should be classed as an `approximate&#...
Benjamin Kelly, David F. Brailsford
FOCS
2006
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Secure Multiparty Quantum Computation with (Only) a Strict Honest Majority
Secret sharing and multiparty computation (also called “secure function evaluation”) are fundamental primitives in modern cryptography, allowing a group of mutually distrustfu...
Michael Ben-Or, Claude Crépeau, Daniel Gott...
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BMCBI
2008
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15 years 20 days ago
Evolution of biological sequences implies an extreme value distribution of type I for both global and local pairwise alignment s
Background: Confidence in pairwise alignments of biological sequences, obtained by various methods such as Blast or Smith-Waterman, is critical for automatic analyses of genomic d...
Olivier Bastien, Eric Maréchal
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ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
An Anatomy of IrisCode for Precise Phase Representation
IrisCode, a widely deployed iris recognition algorithm, developed in 1993 and continuously modified by Daugman has attracted considerable attentions. IrisCode using a coarse phase...
Adams Wai-Kin Kong, David Zhang, Mohamed Kamel