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JPDC
2010
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Combining shared-coin algorithms
This paper shows that shared coin algorithms can be combined to optimize several complexity measures, even in the presence of a strong adversary. By combining shared coins of Brac...
James Aspnes, Hagit Attiya, Keren Censor
MANSCI
2010
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Navel Gazing: Academic Inbreeding and Scientific Productivity
The practice of having PhDs employed by the university that trained them, commonly called "academic inbreeding," has long been assumed to have a damaging effect on schol...
Hugo Horta, Francisco M. Veloso, Rócio Gred...
MP
2010
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An inexact Newton method for nonconvex equality constrained optimization
Abstract We present a matrix-free line search algorithm for large-scale equality constrained optimization that allows for inexact step computations. For sufficiently convex problem...
Richard H. Byrd, Frank E. Curtis, Jorge Nocedal
NETWORKS
2010
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Probabilistic models for the Steiner Tree problem
We consider a probabilistic model for the Steiner Tree problem. Under this model the problem is defined in a 2-stage setting over a first-stage complete weighted graph having it...
Vangelis Th. Paschos, Orestis Telelis, Vassilis Zi...
PAMI
2010
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Photometric Stereo via Expectation Maximization
—This paper presents a robust and automatic approach to photometric stereo, where the two main components, namely surface normals and visible surfaces, are respectively optimized...
Tai-Pang Wu, Chi-Keung Tang