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COMPUTER
2004
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SoftUDC: A Software-Based Data Center for Utility Computing
, abstracts each virtual machine's view of its storage and networks, and binds virtual machines across nodes into isolated virtual farms. The SoftUDC control system spans all ...
Mahesh Kallahalla, Mustafa Uysal, Ram Swaminathan,...
STOC
2003
ACM
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16 years 4 months ago
New degree bounds for polynomial threshold functions
A real multivariate polynomial p(x1, . . . , xn) is said to sign-represent a Boolean function f : {0, 1}n {-1, 1} if the sign of p(x) equals f(x) for all inputs x {0, 1}n. We gi...
Ryan O'Donnell, Rocco A. Servedio
APPROX
2004
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Estimating the Distance to a Monotone Function
In standard property testing, the task is to distinguish between objects that have a property P and those that are ε-far from P, for some ε > 0. In this setting, it is perfec...
Nir Ailon, Bernard Chazelle, Seshadhri Comandur, D...
IPMI
2001
Springer
16 years 5 months ago
Spatio-temporal Covariance Model for Medical Images Sequences: Application to Functional MRI Data
Spatial and temporal correlations which affect the signal measured in functional MRI (fMRI) are usually not considered simultaneously (i.e., as non-independent random processes) in...
Frithjof Kruggel, Habib Benali, Mélanie P&e...
IJHIS
2006
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Incremental evolution strategy for function optimization
This paper presents a novel evolutionary approach for function optimization Incremental Evolution Strategy (IES). Two strategies are proposed. One is to evolve the input variables...
Sheng Uei Guan, Wenting Mo