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HICSS
2000
IEEE
101views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2000»
15 years 10 months ago
Strategic Management of IS/IT Functions: The Role of the CIO
Chief information officers (CIOs) have the difficult job of running a function that uses a lot of resources but offers little measurable evidence of its value. Line managers are i...
Petter Gottschalk, Nolan J. Taylor
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
184views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
16 years 6 months ago
CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies
The rich dependency structure found in the columns of real-world relational databases can be exploited to great advantage, but can also cause query optimizers--which usually assum...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Paul B...
ICML
2005
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Bounded real-time dynamic programming: RTDP with monotone upper bounds and performance guarantees
MDPs are an attractive formalization for planning, but realistic problems often have intractably large state spaces. When we only need a partial policy to get from a fixed start s...
H. Brendan McMahan, Maxim Likhachev, Geoffrey J. G...
PODC
2006
ACM
16 years 10 days ago
Optimal-stretch name-independent compact routing in doubling metrics
We consider the problem of name-independent routing in doubling metrics. A doubling metric is a metric space whose doubling dimension is a constant, where the doubling dimension o...
Goran Konjevod, Andréa W. Richa, Donglin Xi...
BMCBI
2007
113views more  BMCBI 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Learning biophysically-motivated parameters for alpha helix prediction
Background: Our goal is to develop a state-of-the-art protein secondary structure predictor, with an intuitive and biophysically-motivated energy model. We treat structure predict...
Blaise Gassend, Charles W. O'Donnell, William Thie...