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ICDE
2010
IEEE
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Approximate Confidence Computation in Probabilistic Databases
Abstract-- This paper introduces a deterministic approximation algorithm with error guarantees for computing the probability of propositional formulas over discrete random variable...
Dan Olteanu, Jiewen Huang, Christoph Koch
PERCOM
2003
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Providing Contextual Information to Pervasive Computing Applications
Pervasive computing applications are increasingly leveraging contextual information from several sources to provide users with behavior appropriate to the environment in which the...
Glenn Judd, Peter Steenkiste
IPPS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
A metascalable computing framework for large spatiotemporal-scale atomistic simulations
A metascalable (or “design once, scale on new architectures”) parallel computing framework has been developed for large spatiotemporal-scale atomistic simulations of materials...
Ken-ichi Nomura, Richard Seymour, Weiqiang Wang, H...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
A Comparative Study of Parallel Metaheuristics for Protein Structure Prediction on the Computational Grid
A comparative study of parallel metaheuristics executed in grid environments is proposed, having as case study a genetic algorithm, a simulated annealing algorithm and a random se...
Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghaza...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Phylogenetic models of rate heterogeneity: a high performance computing perspective
Inference of phylogenetic trees using the maximum likelihood (ML) method is NP-hard. Furthermore, the computation of the likelihood function for huge trees of more than 1,000 orga...
Alexandros Stamatakis