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HICSS
2000
IEEE
101views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2000»
15 years 2 months ago
Strategic Management of IS/IT Functions: The Role of the CIO
Chief information officers (CIOs) have the difficult job of running a function that uses a lot of resources but offers little measurable evidence of its value. Line managers are i...
Petter Gottschalk, Nolan J. Taylor
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
184views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
15 years 10 months ago
CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies
The rich dependency structure found in the columns of real-world relational databases can be exploited to great advantage, but can also cause query optimizers--which usually assum...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Paul B...
ICML
2005
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Bounded real-time dynamic programming: RTDP with monotone upper bounds and performance guarantees
MDPs are an attractive formalization for planning, but realistic problems often have intractably large state spaces. When we only need a partial policy to get from a fixed start s...
H. Brendan McMahan, Maxim Likhachev, Geoffrey J. G...
PODC
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Optimal-stretch name-independent compact routing in doubling metrics
We consider the problem of name-independent routing in doubling metrics. A doubling metric is a metric space whose doubling dimension is a constant, where the doubling dimension o...
Goran Konjevod, Andréa W. Richa, Donglin Xi...
BMCBI
2007
113views more  BMCBI 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Learning biophysically-motivated parameters for alpha helix prediction
Background: Our goal is to develop a state-of-the-art protein secondary structure predictor, with an intuitive and biophysically-motivated energy model. We treat structure predict...
Blaise Gassend, Charles W. O'Donnell, William Thie...