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BIRTHDAY
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Trace Semantics for Long-Running Transactions
Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...
Michael J. Butler, C. A. R. Hoare, Carla Ferreira
GECCO
2004
Springer
110views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
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Is the Predicted ESS in the Sequential Assessment Game Evolvable?
The Sequential Assessment Game model of animal contests predicts an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) that is a sequence of thresholds for giving up. Simulated evolution experim...
Winfried Just, Xiaolu Sun
KR
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Towards a Quantitative, Platform-Independent Analysis of Knowledge Systems
The Halo Pilot, a six-month effort to evaluate the state-ofthe-art in applied Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) systems, collaboratively developed a taxonomy of failure...
Noah S. Friedland, Paul G. Allen, Michael J. Witbr...
VLDB
2004
ACM
111views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
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Technology Challenges in a Data Warehouse
This presentation will discuss several database technology challenges that are faced when building a data warehouse. It will touch on the challenges posed by high capacity drives ...
Ramesh Bhashyam
CSB
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Search for Evolution-Related-Oligonucleotides and Conservative Words in rRNA Sequences
We describe a method for finding ungapped conserved words in rRNA sequences that is effective, utilizes evolutionary information and does not depend on multiple sequence alignment...
Liaofu Luo, Li-Ching Hsieh, Fengmin Ji, Mengwen Ji...