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INFOCOM
2003
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Minimizing Request Blocking in All-Optical Rings
— In all-optical networks that use WDM technology it is often the case that several communication requests have to be blocked, due to bandwidth and technology limitations. Minimi...
Christos Nomikos, Aris Pagourtzis, Stathis Zachos
JCB
2007
168views more  JCB 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
Fast Molecular Shape Matching Using Contact Maps
In this paper, we study the problem of computing the similarity of two protein structures ring their contact-map overlap. Contact-map overlap abstracts the problem of computing th...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Nabil H. Mustafa, Yusu Wang
GECCO
2005
Springer
139views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
15 years 8 months ago
Use of a genetic algorithm in brill's transformation-based part-of-speech tagger
The tagging problem in natural language processing is to find a way to label every word in a text as a particular part of speech, e.g., proper noun. An effective way of solving th...
Garnett Carl Wilson, Malcolm I. Heywood
TOC
2010
127views Management» more  TOC 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
The Submodular Welfare Problem with Demand Queries
: We consider the Submodular Welfare Problem where we have m items and n players with given utility functions wi : 2[m] R+. The utility functions are assumed to be monotone and su...
Uriel Feige, Jan Vondrák
STOC
1998
ACM
190views Algorithms» more  STOC 1998»
15 years 7 months ago
Efficient Search for Approximate Nearest Neighbor in High Dimensional Spaces
We address the problem of designing data structures that allow efficient search for approximate nearest neighbors. More specifically, given a database consisting of a set of vecto...
Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky, Yuval Rabani