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SAC
2012
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
Decrypting classical cipher text using Markov chain Monte Carlo
In this paper, we present the use of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods to attack the classical ciphers. We use frequency analysis as our basic tool. First we investigate the...
Jian Chen, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
SAC
2012
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
A semiparametric Bayesian approach to extreme value estimation
Fernando Ferraz do Nascimento, Dani Gamerman, Hedi...
SAC
2012
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
On a hybrid data cloning method and its application in generalized linear mixed models
Data cloning method is a new computational tool for computing maximum likelihood estimates in complex statistical models such as mixed models. This method is synthesized with inte...
Hossein Baghishani, Håvard Rue, Mohsen Moham...
PROPOR
2012
Springer
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SIGA, a System to Manage Information Retrieval Evaluations
This paper provides an overview of the current version of SIGA, a system that supports the organization of information retrieval (IR) evaluations. SIGA was recently used in Págico...
Luís Fernando Costa, Cristina Mota, Diana S...
PROPOR
2012
Springer
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14 years 8 days ago
Automatic Generation of Cloze Question Stems
Fill-in-the-blank questions are one of the main assessment devices in REAP.PT tutoring system. The problem of automatically generating the stems, i.e. the sentences that serve as b...
Rui Correia, Jorge Baptista, Maxine Eskenazi, Nuno...
PPOPP
2012
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
Wait-free linked-lists
The linked-list data structure is fundamental and ubiquitous. Lockfree versions of the linked-list are well known. However, the existence of a practical wait-free linked-list has ...
Shahar Timnat, Anastasia Braginsky, Alex Kogan, Er...
PPOPP
2012
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
Better speedups using simpler parallel programming for graph connectivity and biconnectivity
Speedups demonstrated for finding the biconnected components of a graph: 9x to 33x on the Explicit Multi-Threading (XMT) many-core computing platform relative to the best serial ...
James A. Edwards, Uzi Vishkin
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PPOPP
2012
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
PARRAY: a unifying array representation for heterogeneous parallelism
This paper introduces a programming interface called PARRAY (or Parallelizing ARRAYs) that supports system-level succinct programming for heterogeneous parallel systems like GPU c...
Yifeng Chen, Xiang Cui, Hong Mei
PPOPP
2012
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
Mechanizing the expert dense linear algebra developer
The efforts of an expert to parallelize and optimize a dense linear algebra algorithm for distributed-memory targets are largely mechanical and repetitive. We demonstrate that the...
Bryan Marker, Andy Terrel, Jack Poulson, Don S. Ba...