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ISAAC
2003
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Geometric Restrictions on Producible Polygonal Protein Chains
Fixed-angle polygonal chains in 3D serve as an interesting model of protein backbones. Here we consider such chains produced inside a “machine” modeled crudely as a cone, and e...
Erik D. Demaine, Stefan Langerman, Joseph O'Rourke
VLDB
1999
ACM
140views Database» more  VLDB 1999»
15 years 2 months ago
Combining Histograms and Parametric Curve Fitting for Feedback-Driven Query Result-size Estimation
This paper aims to improve the accuracy of query result-size estimations in query optimizers by leveraging the dynamic feedback obtained from observations on the executed query wo...
Arnd Christian König, Gerhard Weikum
MSWIM
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Adaptive transmission opportunity with admission control for IEEE 802.11e networks
The increase of IEEE 802.11’s bandwidth led to a deployment of many multimedia applications over wireless networks. Nevertheless, these applications impose stringent constraints...
Adlen Ksentini, Abdelhak Guéroui, Mohamed N...
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
15 years 3 months ago
What is worth learning from parallel workloads?: a user and session based analysis
Learning useful and predictable features from past workloads and exploiting them well is a major source of improvement in many operating system problems. We review known parallel ...
Julia Zilber, Ofer Amit, David Talby
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
On the role of distances in defining voting rules
A voting rule is an algorithm for determining the winner in an election, and there are several approaches that have been used to justify the proposed rules. One justification is t...
Edith Elkind, Piotr Faliszewski, Arkadii M. Slinko