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WSC
2004
13 years 7 months ago
On Using Monte Carlo Methods for Scheduling
Monte Carlo techniques have long been used (since Buffon's experiment to approximate the value of by tossing a needle onto striped paper) to analyze phenomena which, due to ...
Samarn Chantaravarapan, Ali K. Gunal, Edward J. Wi...
CGF
2008
129views more  CGF 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Sequential Monte Carlo Adaptation in Low-Anisotropy Participating Media
This paper presents a novel method that effectively combines both control variates and importance sampling in a sequential Monte Carlo context. The radiance estimates computed dur...
Vincent Pegoraro, Ingo Wald, Steven G. Parker
FCCM
2009
IEEE
121views VLSI» more  FCCM 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
FPGA-based Monte Carlo Computation of Light Absorption for Photodynamic Cancer Therapy
—Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a method of treating cancer that combines light and light-sensitive drugs to selectively destroy cancerous tumours without harming the healthy tiss...
Jason Luu, Keith Redmond, William Lo, Paul Chow, L...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
155views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Monte Carlo simultaneous localization of multiple unknown transient radio sources using a mobile robot with a directional antenn
— We report our system and algorithm developments that enable a single mobile robot equipped with a directional antenna to simultaneously localize multiple unknown transient radi...
Dezhen Song, Chang-Young Kim, Jingang Yi
BMCBI
2004
177views more  BMCBI 2004»
13 years 6 months ago
Gapped alignment of protein sequence motifs through Monte Carlo optimization of a hidden Markov model
Background: Certain protein families are highly conserved across distantly related organisms and belong to large and functionally diverse superfamilies. The patterns of conservati...
Andrew F. Neuwald, Jun S. Liu