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AIPS
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Optimal Rectangle Packing: New Results
We present new results on the problem of finding an enclosing rectangle of minimum area that will contain a given a set of rectangles. Many simple scheduling tasks can be modelled...
Richard E. Korf
FLAIRS
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Multimodal Function Optimization Using Local Ruggedness Information
In multimodal function optimization, niching techniques create diversification within the population, thus encouraging heterogeneous convergence. The key to the effective diversif...
Jian Zhang 0007, Xiaohui Yuan, Bill P. Buckles
UAI
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Dependent Dirichlet Priors and Optimal Linear Estimators for Belief Net Parameters
A Bayesian belief network is a model of a joint distribution over a finite set of variables, with a DAG structure representing immediate dependencies among the variables. For each...
Peter Hooper
BIOINFORMATICS
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Optimization of primer design for the detection of variable genomic lesions in cancer
Primer approximation multiplex PCR (PAMP) is a new experimental protocol for efficiently assaying structural variation in genomes. PAMP is particularly suited to cancer genomes w...
Ali Bashir, Yu-Tsueng Liu, Benjamin J. Raphael, De...
COGSCI
2008
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Optimal Predictions in Everyday Cognition: The Wisdom of Individuals or Crowds?
Griffiths and Tenenbaum (2006) asked individuals to make predictions about the duration or extent of everyday events (e.g., cake baking times), and reported that predictions were ...
Michael C. Mozer, Harold Pashler, Hadjar Homaei