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DNA
2009
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Design of a Biomolecular Device That Executes Process Algebra
Process algebras are widely used for defining the formal semantics of concurrent communicating processes. In process algebra, concurrent processes can be specified to execute di...
Urmi Majumder, John H. Reif
ISM
2008
IEEE
110views Multimedia» more  ISM 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
A Hardware-Independent Fast Logarithm Approximation with Adjustable Accuracy
Many multimedia applications rely on the computation of logarithms, for example, when estimating log-likelihoods for Gaussian Mixture Models. Knowing of the demand to compute loga...
Oriol Vinyals, Gerald Friedland
RECOMB
2004
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Mining protein family specific residue packing patterns from protein structure graphs
Finding recurring residue packing patterns, or spatial motifs, that characterize protein structural families is an important problem in bioinformatics. To this end, we apply a nov...
Jun Huan, Wei Wang 0010, Deepak Bandyopadhyay, Jac...
COLT
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Adapting to a Changing Environment: the Brownian Restless Bandits
In the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem there are k distributions associated with the rewards of playing each of k strategies (slot machine arms). The reward distributions are ini...
Aleksandrs Slivkins, Eli Upfal
ITICSE
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Teaching programming and language concepts using LEGOs
concepts more concrete. The method has two main learning outcomes: • Language Specification – The goal of the assignment is to be able to build LEGO® creations on a standard g...
Cynthia S. Hood, Dennis J. Hood