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RECOMB
1999
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Fast detection of common geometric substructure in proteins
We consider the problem of identifying common three-dimensional substructures between proteins. Our method is based on comparing the shape of the α-carbon backbone structures of ...
L. Paul Chew, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Klara Kedem,...
FOCS
1992
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Fault-tolerant Wait-free Shared Objects
Wait-free implementations of shared objects tolerate the failure of processes, but not the failure of base objects from which they are implemented. We consider the problem of imple...
Prasad Jayanti, Tushar Deepak Chandra, Sam Toueg
ASAP
1997
IEEE
107views Hardware» more  ASAP 1997»
15 years 10 months ago
Tiling with limited resources
In the framework of perfect loop nests with uniform dependences, tiling has been extensively studied as a source-to-source program transformation. Little work has been devoted to ...
Pierre-Yves Calland, Jack Dongarra, Yves Robert
APPROX
2010
Springer
139views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2010»
15 years 8 months ago
Two-Source Extractors Secure against Quantum Adversaries
We initiate the study of multi-source extractors in the quantum world. In this setting, our goal is to extract random bits from two independent weak random sources, on which two q...
Roy Kasher, Julia Kempe
AIEDU
2008
162views more  AIEDU 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Designing Learning by Teaching Agents: The Betty's Brain System
The idea that teaching others is a powerful way to learn is intuitively compelling and supported in the research literature. We have developed computer-based, domain-independent Te...
Krittaya Leelawong, Gautam Biswas