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BMCBI
2008
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15 years 4 months ago
Abbreviation definition identification based on automatic precision estimates
Background: The rapid growth of biomedical literature presents challenges for automatic text processing, and one of the challenges is abbreviation identification. The presence of ...
Sunghwan Sohn, Donald C. Comeau, Won Kim, W. John ...
CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Improved Approximations for Multiprocessor Scheduling Under Uncertainty
This paper presents improved approximation algorithms for the problem of multiprocessor scheduling under uncertainty (SUU), in which the execution of each job may fail probabilist...
Christopher Y. Crutchfield, Zoran Dzunic, Jeremy T...
MST
2010
187views more  MST 2010»
14 years 11 months ago
Distributed Approximation of Capacitated Dominating Sets
We study local, distributed algorithms for the capacitated minimum dominating set (CapMDS) problem, which arises in various distributed network applications. Given a network graph...
Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Moscibroda
ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Quality-bounded solutions for finite Bayesian Stackelberg games: scaling up
The fastest known algorithm for solving General Bayesian Stackelberg games with a finite set of follower (adversary) types have seen direct practical use at the LAX airport for o...
Manish Jain, Christopher Kiekintveld, Milind Tambe
STOC
2005
ACM
147views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
16 years 5 months ago
Simulating independence: new constructions of condensers, ramsey graphs, dispersers, and extractors
We present new explicit constructions of deterministic randomness extractors, dispersers and related objects. We say that a distribution X on binary strings of length n is a -sour...
Boaz Barak, Guy Kindler, Ronen Shaltiel, Benny Sud...