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ICRA
2007
IEEE
148views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Simple, Robust Autonomous Grasping in Unstructured Environments
—The inherent uncertainty associated with unstructured grasping tasks makes establishing a successful grasp difficult. Traditional approaches to this problem involve hands that a...
Aaron M. Dollar, Robert D. Howe
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
320views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2011»
14 years 3 months ago
Market making and mean reversion
Market making refers broadly to trading strategies that seek to profit by providing liquidity to other traders, while avoiding accumulating a large net position in a stock. In th...
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Michael Kearns
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P2P
2008
IEEE
137views Communications» more  P2P 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Hierarchical Codes: How to Make Erasure Codes Attractive for Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems
Redundancy is the basic technique to provide reliability in storage systems consisting of multiple components. A redundancy scheme defines how the redundant data are produced and...
Alessandro Duminuco, Ernst Biersack
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BMCBI
2005
130views more  BMCBI 2005»
15 years 1 days ago
Squid - a simple bioinformatics grid
Background: BLAST is a widely used genetic research tool for analysis of similarity between nucleotide and protein sequences. This paper presents a software application entitled &...
Paulo C. Carvalho, Rafael V. Glória, Antoni...
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PODS
2011
ACM
238views Database» more  PODS 2011»
14 years 3 months ago
Beyond simple aggregates: indexing for summary queries
Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...
Zhewei Wei, Ke Yi