We describe the problem of scheduling astronomy observations for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an airborne telescope. The problem requires maximizing the nu...
RNA molecules whose secondary structures contain similar substructures often have similar functions. Therefore, an important task in the study of RNA is to develop methods for disc...
We develop a framework for trading in compound securities: financial instruments that pay off contingent on the outcomes of arbitrary statements in propositional logic. Buying o...
Lance Fortnow, Joe Kilian, David M. Pennock, Micha...
Electronic newsgroups are one of the primary means for the dissemination, exchange and sharing of information. We argue that the current newsgroup model is unsatisfactory, especial...
This paper discusses a simple representation of variable-dimensional optimization problems for evolutionary algorithms. Although it was successfully applied to the optimization of ...