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2012
ACM
251views Algorithms» more  STOC 2012»
13 years 8 months ago
Minimax option pricing meets black-scholes in the limit
Option contracts are a type of financial derivative that allow investors to hedge risk and speculate on the variation of an asset’s future market price. In short, an option has...
Jacob Abernethy, Rafael M. Frongillo, Andre Wibiso...
VIS
2004
IEEE
170views Visualization» more  VIS 2004»
16 years 7 months ago
Guaranteed Quality Triangulation of Molecular Skin Surfaces
We present an efficient algorithm to mesh the macromolecules surface model represented by the skin surface defined by Edelsbrunner. Our algorithm overcomes several challenges resi...
Ho-Lun Cheng, Xinwei Shi
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Motivating participation by displaying the value of contribution
One of the important challenges faced by designers of online communities is eliciting sufficent contributions from community members. Users in online communities may have difficul...
Al Mamunur Rashid, Kimberly S. Ling, Regina D. Tas...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Toward highly-available WSNs for assisted living
In response to the consistent increase of elder people living in their apartments, and the need for innovative non-obtrusive tools to connect elders to their caregivers, we starte...
Safwan Al-Omari, Weisong Shi
ICDS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
An Iterative Method to Design Traffic Flow Models
Existing traffic flow modeling theory lacks of guidelines to construct traffic flow models from scratch. In addition, traffic flow models are mainly analyzed with computer simulat...
Juan Manuel González-Calleros, Jorge Mart&i...