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COCO
2007
Springer
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Bounded Queries and the NP Machine Hypothesis
The NP machine hypothesis posits the existence of an ǫ > 0 and a nondeterministic polynomial-time Turing machine M which accepts the language 0∗ but for which no determinist...
Richard Chang, Suresh Purini
COLT
2007
Springer
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A Lower Bound for Agnostically Learning Disjunctions
We prove that the concept class of disjunctions cannot be pointwise approximated by linear combinations of any small set of arbitrary real-valued functions. That is, suppose there ...
Adam R. Klivans, Alexander A. Sherstov
CSCLP
2007
Springer
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Quasi-Linear-Time Algorithms by Generalisation of Union-Find in CHR
Abstract. The union-find algorithm can be seen as solving simple equations between variables or constants. With a few lines of code change, we generalise its implementation in CHR...
Thom W. Frühwirth
EPIA
2007
Springer
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Towards Tractable Local Closed World Reasoning for the Semantic Web
Recently, the logics of minimal knowledge and negation as failure MKNF [12] was used to introduce hybrid MKNF knowledge bases [14], a powerful formalism for combining open and clos...
Matthias Knorr, José Júlio Alferes, ...
GECCO
2007
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
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A building-block royal road where crossover is provably essential
One of the most controversial yet enduring hypotheses about what genetic algorithms (GAs) are good for concerns the idea that GAs process building-blocks. More specifically, it ha...
Richard A. Watson, Thomas Jansen