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HICSS
2003
IEEE
151views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
15 years 3 months ago
A Simple GSPN for Modeling Common Mode Failures in Critical Infrastructures
It is now apparent that our nation’s infrastructures and essential utilities have been optimized for reliability in benign operating environments. As such, they are susceptible ...
Axel W. Krings, Paul W. Oman
SIAMSC
2008
148views more  SIAMSC 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Multilevel Adaptive Aggregation for Markov Chains, with Application to Web Ranking
A multilevel adaptive aggregation method for calculating the stationary probability vector of an irreducible stochastic matrix is described. The method is a special case of the ada...
Hans De Sterck, Thomas A. Manteuffel, Stephen F. M...
CORR
2008
Springer
143views Education» more  CORR 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Convergence Thresholds of Newton's Method for Monotone Polynomial Equations
Abstract. Monotone systems of polynomial equations (MSPEs) are systems of fixedpoint equations X1 = f1(X1, . . . , Xn), . . . , Xn = fn(X1, . . . , Xn) where each fi is a polynomia...
Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, Michael Luttenberge...
CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A Semantic Imitation Model of Social Tag Choices
—We describe a semantic imitation model of social tagging that integrates formal representations of semantics and a stochastic tag choice process to explain and predict emergent ...
Wai-Tat Fu, Thomas George Kannampallil, Ruogu Kang
ENTCS
2010
127views more  ENTCS 2010»
14 years 9 months ago
Combining Model Reductions
Molecular biological models usually suffer from a large combinatorial explosion. Indeed, proteins form complexes and modify each others, which leads to the formation of a huge num...
Ferdinanda Camporesi, Jérôme Feret, H...