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2000
15 years 8 months ago
Quasi-Monte Carlo methods in cash flow testing simulations
What actuaries call cash flow testing is a large-scale simulation pitting a company's current policy obligation against future earnings based on interest rates. While life co...
Michael G. Hilgers
JACM
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Distribution sort with randomized cycling
Parallel independent disks can enhance the performance of external memory (EM) algorithms, but the programming task is often di cult. In this paper we develop randomized variants ...
Jeffrey Scott Vitter, David A. Hutchinson
HPDC
2011
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Juggle: proactive load balancing on multicore computers
We investigate proactive dynamic load balancing on multicore systems, in which threads are continually migrated to reduce the impact of processor/thread mismatches to enhance the ...
Steven Hofmeyr, Juan A. Colmenares, Costin Iancu, ...
TIT
2010
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15 years 1 months ago
On the information rates of the plenoptic function
The plenoptic function (Adelson and Bergen, 91) describes the visual information available to an observer at any point in space and time. Samples of the plenoptic function (POF) a...
Arthur L. da Cunha, Minh N. Do, Martin Vetterli
IDEAS
2005
IEEE
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16 years 5 days ago
Fine-Granularity Access Control in 3-Tier Laboratory Information Systems
Laboratory information systems (LIMS) are used in life science research to manage complex experiments. Since LIMS systems are often shared by different research groups, powerful a...
Xueli Li, Nomair A. Naeem, Bettina Kemme