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JORS
2010
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14 years 4 months ago
Monte Carlo scenario generation for retail loan portfolios
Monte Carlo simulation is a common method for studying the volatility of market traded instruments. It is less employed in retail lending, because of the inherent nonlinearities in...
J. L. Breeden, D. Ingram
COCO
2008
Springer
88views Algorithms» more  COCO 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Approximation of Natural W[P]-Complete Minimisation Problems Is Hard
We prove that the weighted monotone circuit satisfiability problem has no fixed-parameter tractable approximation algorithm with constant or polylogarithmic approximation ratio un...
Kord Eickmeyer, Martin Grohe, Magdalena Grübe...
WWW
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
BackRank: an alternative for PageRank?
This paper proposes to extend a previous work, The Effect of the Back Button in a Random Walk: Application for PageRank [5]. We introduce an enhanced version of the PageRank algor...
Mohamed Bouklit, Fabien Mathieu
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ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
15 years 6 months ago
Cryptography by Cellular Automata or How Fast Can Complexity Emerge in Nature?
Computation in the physical world is restricted by the following spatial locality constraint: In a single unit of time, information can only travel a bounded distance in space. A ...
Benny Applebaum, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz
BMCBI
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
A tale of two symmetrical tails: Structural and functional characteristics of palindromes in proteins
Background: It has been previously shown that palindromic sequences are frequently observed in proteins. However, our knowledge about their evolutionary origin and their possible ...
Armita Sheari, Mehdi Kargar, Ali Katanforoush, Sha...