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CACM
2010
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14 years 10 months ago
FastTrack: efficient and precise dynamic race detection
Multithreaded programs are notoriously prone to race conditions. Prior work on dynamic race detectors includes fast but imprecise race detectors that report false alarms, as well ...
Cormac Flanagan, Stephen N. Freund
IOR
2010
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Stochastic Root Finding and Efficient Estimation of Convex Risk Measures
Reliable risk measurement is a key problem for financial institutions and regulatory authorities. The current industry standard Value-at-Risk has several deficiencies. Improved ri...
Jörn Dunkel, Stefan Weber
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PVLDB
2010
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14 years 7 months ago
Efficient RkNN Retrieval with Arbitrary Non-Metric Similarity Measures
A RkNN query returns all objects whose nearest k neighbors contain the query object. In this paper, we consider RkNN query processing in the case where the distances between attri...
Deepak P, Prasad Deshpande
IMCSIT
2010
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Efficient Portfolio Optimization with Conditional Value at Risk
The portfolio optimization problem is modeled as a mean-risk bicriteria optimization problem where the expected return is maximized and some (scalar) risk measure is minimized. In ...
Wlodzimierz Ogryczak, Tomasz Sliwinski
RECOMB
2007
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Association Mapping of Complex Diseases with Ancestral Recombination Graphs: Models and Efficient Algorithms
Association, or LD (linkage disequilibrium), mapping is an intensely-studied approach to gene mapping (genome-wide or in candidate regions) that is widely hoped to be able to effic...
Yufeng Wu