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CORR
2010
Springer
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Evolution with Drifting Targets
We consider the question of the stability of evolutionary algorithms to gradual changes, or drift, in the target concept. We define an algorithm to be resistant to drift if, for s...
Varun Kanade, Leslie G. Valiant, Jennifer Wortman ...
COLT
2005
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
From External to Internal Regret
External regret compares the performance of an online algorithm, selecting among N actions, to the performance of the best of those actions in hindsight. Internal regret compares ...
Avrim Blum, Yishay Mansour
BMCBI
2007
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SEARCHPATTOOL: a new method for mining the most specific frequent patterns for binding sites with application to prokaryotic DNA
Background: Computational methods to predict transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) based on exhaustive algorithms are guaranteed to find the best patterns but are often limite...
Fathi Elloumi, Martha Nason
JACM
2006
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Combining expert advice in reactive environments
"Experts algorithms" constitute a methodology for choosing actions repeatedly, when the rewards depend both on the choice of action and on the unknown current state of t...
Daniela Pucci de Farias, Nimrod Megiddo
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
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Utility maximization in peer-to-peer systems
In this paper, we study the problem of utility maximization in P2P systems, in which aggregate application-specific utilities are maximized by running distributed algorithms on P2...
Minghua Chen, Miroslav Ponec, Sudipta Sengupta, Ji...