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CANDC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Musicomputation: teaching computer science to teenage musicians
While algorithms have existed in math, music and other fields for over one thousand years, the use of algorithms to solve problems has become easier than ever before due to the a...
Adam L. Meyers, Marilyn C. Cole, Evan Korth, Sam P...
COMPGEOM
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Zigzag persistent homology and real-valued functions
We study the problem of computing zigzag persistence of a sequence of homology groups and study a particular sequence derived from the levelsets of a real-valued function on a top...
Gunnar Carlsson, Vin de Silva, Dmitriy Morozov
COMPGEOM
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Minimum cuts and shortest homologous cycles
We describe the first algorithms to compute minimum cuts in surface-embedded graphs in near-linear time. Given an undirected graph embedded on an orientable surface of genus g, w...
Erin W. Chambers, Jeff Erickson, Amir Nayyeri
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HT
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Statistical properties of inter-arrival times distribution in social tagging systems
Folksonomies provide a rich source of data to study social patterns taking place on the World Wide Web. Here we study the temporal patterns of users’ tagging activity. We show t...
Andrea Capocci, Andrea Baldassarri, Vito Domenico ...
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IWCMC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Optimal cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive sensor networks
This paper addresses the problem of optimal cooperative spectrum sensing in a cognitive-enabled sensor network where cognitive sensors can cooperate in the sensing of the spectrum...
Hai Ngoc Pham, Yan Zhang, Paal E. Engelstad, Tor S...