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BMCBI
2006
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14 years 11 months ago
Improvement in accuracy of multiple sequence alignment using novel group-to-group sequence alignment algorithm with piecewise li
Background: Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a useful tool in bioinformatics. Although many MSA algorithms have been developed, there is still room for improvement in accuracy...
Shinsuke Yamada, Osamu Gotoh, Hayato Yamana
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IDEAS
2007
IEEE
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15 years 5 months ago
Streaming Random Forests
Many recent applications deal with data streams, conceptually endless sequences of data records, often arriving at high flow rates. Standard data-mining techniques typically assu...
Hanady Abdulsalam, David B. Skillicorn, Patrick Ma...
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JDA
2006
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14 years 11 months ago
On Multi-threaded Metrical Task Systems
Traditionally, on-line problems have been studied under the assumption that there is a unique sequence of requests that must be served. This approach is common to most general mod...
Esteban Feuerstein, Steven S. Seiden, Alejandro St...
FOCS
2004
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Extracting Randomness Using Few Independent Sources
In this work we give the first deterministic extractors from a constant number of weak sources whose entropy rate is less than 1/2. Specifically, for every > 0 we give an expl...
Boaz Barak, Russell Impagliazzo, Avi Wigderson
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WSC
1998
15 years 7 days ago
Input Modeling Tools for Complex Problems
A simulation model is composed of inputs and logic; the inputs represent the uncertainty or randomness in the system, while the logic determines how the system reacts to the uncer...
Barry L. Nelson, Michael Yamnitsky