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GECCO
2007
Springer
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Distribution replacement: how survival of the worst can out perform survival of the fittest
A new family of "Distribution Replacement” operators for use in steady state genetic algorithms is presented. Distribution replacement enforces the members of the populatio...
Howard Tripp, Phil Palmer
GECCO
2007
Springer
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A particle swarm optimization approach for estimating parameter confidence regions
Point estimates of the parameters in real world models convey valuable information about the actual system. However, parameter comparisons and/or statistical inference requires de...
Praveen Koduru, Stephen Welch, Sanjoy Das
ISBRA
2007
Springer
16 years 21 days ago
Reconstruction of 3D Structures from Protein Contact Maps
Proteins are large organic compounds made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain (primary structure). Most proteins fold into unique threedimensional (3D) structures called inte...
Marco Vassura, Luciano Margara, Filippo Medri, Pie...
FOCS
2006
IEEE
16 years 18 days ago
Hardness of Learning Halfspaces with Noise
Learning an unknown halfspace (also called a perceptron) from labeled examples is one of the classic problems in machine learning. In the noise-free case, when a halfspace consist...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Prasad Raghavendra
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
16 years 18 days ago
Utility-Optimal Medium Access Control: Reverse and Forward Engineering
— This paper analyzes and designs medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless ad-hoc networks through the network utility maximization (NUM) framework. We first reverse-e...
Jang-Won Lee, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderbank