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2008
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How crystals that sense and respond to their environments could evolve
An enduring mystery in biology is how a physical entity simple enough to have arisen spontaneously could have evolved into the complex life seen on Earth today. Cairns-Smith has pr...
Rebecca Schulman, Erik Winfree
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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
143views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
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Test-driven learning in early programming courses
Coercing new programmers to adopt disciplined development practices such as thorough unit testing is a challenging endeavor. Test-driven development (TDD) has been proposed as a s...
David Janzen, Hossein Saiedian
SAC
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
High performance XSL-FO rendering for variable data printing
High volume print jobs are getting more common due to the growing demand for personalized documents. In this context, Variable Data Printing (VDP) has become a useful tool for mar...
Fabio Giannetti, Luiz Gustavo Fernandes, Rogerio T...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
179views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
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Xengine: a fast and scalable XACML policy evaluation engine
XACML has become the de facto standard for specifying access control policies for various applications, especially web services. With the explosive growth of web applications depl...
Alex X. Liu, Fei Chen, JeeHyun Hwang, Tao Xie
BMCBI
2005
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Evolutionary models for insertions and deletions in a probabilistic modeling framework
Background: Probabilistic models for sequence comparison (such as hidden Markov models and pair hidden Markov models for proteins and mRNAs, or their context-free grammar counterp...
Elena Rivas