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STOC
2012
ACM
251views Algorithms» more  STOC 2012»
13 years 7 months ago
Minimax option pricing meets black-scholes in the limit
Option contracts are a type of financial derivative that allow investors to hedge risk and speculate on the variation of an asset’s future market price. In short, an option has...
Jacob Abernethy, Rafael M. Frongillo, Andre Wibiso...
GECCO
2008
Springer
261views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
15 years 5 months ago
SSNNS -: a suite of tools to explore spiking neural networks
We are interested in engineering smart machines that enable backtracking of emergent behaviors. Our SSNNS simulator consists of hand-picked tools to explore spiking neural network...
Heike Sichtig, J. David Schaffer, Craig B. Laramee
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
172views Database» more  SIGMOD 2002»
16 years 5 months ago
Automating physical database design in a parallel database
Physical database design is important for query performance in a shared-nothing parallel database system, in which data is horizontally partitioned among multiple independent node...
Jun Rao, Chun Zhang, Nimrod Megiddo, Guy M. Lohman
BMCBI
2010
113views more  BMCBI 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis for Metabolomic Data
Background: Data from metabolomic studies are typically complex and high-dimensional. Principal component analysis (PCA) is currently the most widely used statistical technique fo...
Gift Nyamundanda, Lorraine Brennan, Isobel Claire ...
CORR
1998
Springer
164views Education» more  CORR 1998»
15 years 4 months ago
Training Reinforcement Neurocontrollers Using the Polytope Algorithm
A new training algorithm is presented for delayed reinforcement learning problems that does not assume the existence of a critic model and employs the polytope optimization algorit...
Aristidis Likas, Isaac E. Lagaris