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ICFEM
2007
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Automating Refinement Checking in Probabilistic System Design
Abstract. Refinement plays a crucial role in "top-down" styles of verification, such as the refinement calculus, but for probabilistic systems proof of refinement is a pa...
Carlos Gonzalia, Annabelle McIver
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LMO
1996
15 years 4 months ago
Using Metaobjects to Model Concurrent Objects with PICT
We seek to support the development of open, distributed applications from patible software abstractions. In order to rigorously specify these abstractions, we are elaborating a for...
Markus Lumpe, Jean-Guy Schneider, Oscar Nierstrasz
ICML
2006
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Constructing informative priors using transfer learning
Many applications of supervised learning require good generalization from limited labeled data. In the Bayesian setting, we can try to achieve this goal by using an informative pr...
Rajat Raina, Andrew Y. Ng, Daphne Koller
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PODS
2002
ACM
138views Database» more  PODS 2002»
16 years 3 months ago
Fast Algorithms For Hierarchical Range Histogram Construction
Data Warehousing and OLAPapplications typically view data as having multiple logical dimensions e.g., product, location with natural hierarchies de ned on each dimension. OLAP que...
Sudipto Guha, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava
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GECCO
2007
Springer
175views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 9 months ago
On the constructiveness of context-aware crossover
Crossover in Genetic Programming is mostly a destructive operator, generally producing children worse than the parents and occasionally producing those who are better. A recently ...
Hammad Majeed, Conor Ryan