Alignment of RNA structures is very important in biological research. Similar to pair-wise sequence alignment, there is often disagreement about how to weight matches, mismatches, indels and gaps when comparing two RN...
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Memory contention is an important performance issue in current multicore architectures. In this paper, we focus on understanding how off-chip memory contention affects the performance of parallel applications. Using m...
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To bridge the semantic gap between low level feature and human perception, most of the existing algorithms aim mainly at annotating images with concepts coming from only one semantic space, e.g. cognitive or affective...
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A reaction system is essentially a finite set of reactions, where each reaction consists of a finite set of reactants (needed for the reaction to take place), a finite set of inhibitors (each of which inhibits the rea...
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Hispanics have the highest growth rates among all groups in the U.S., yet they remain considerably underrepresented in computing careers and in the numbers who obtain advanced degrees. Hispanics constituted about 7% o...
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Hispanics have the highest growth rates among all groups in the U.S., yet they remain considerably underrepresented in computing careers and in the numbers who obtain advanced degrees. Hispanics constituted about 7% of undergraduate computerscience and computer engineering graduates and 1% of doctoral graduates in 2007-2008. The small number of Hispanic faculty, combined with the lack of Hispanic role models and mentors, perpetuates a troublesome cycle of underrepresentation in STEM fields. In 2004, seven Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) formed the computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) to consolidate their strengths, resources, and concerns with the aim of increasing the number of Hispanics who pursue and complete baccalaureate and advanced degrees in computing areas. To address barriers that hinder students from advancing, CAHSI defined a number of initiatives, based on programs that produced promising results at one or more institutions. These included the following: a CS-0 course that focuses on adoption of a three-unit pre-CS course that uses graphics and animation to engage and prepare students who have no prior experience in computing;a peer mentoring strategy that provides an active, collaborative learning experience for students while creating leadership roles for undergraduates;an undergraduate and graduate student research model that emphasizes the deliberate and intentional development of technical, team, and professional skills and knowledge required for research and cooperative work;and a mentoring framework for engaging undergraduates in experiences and activities that prepare them for graduate studies and onto the professoriate. CAHSI plays a critical role in evaluating, documenting, and disseminating effective practices that achieve its mission. This paper provides an overview of CAHSI initiatives and describes how each addresses causes of underrepresentation of Hispanics in computing. In addition, it describes the evaluati
The choice of requirements for an argument of a generic type or algorithm is a central design issue in generic programming. In the context of C++, a specification of requirements for a template argument or a set of te...
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As the Internet becomes increasingly important to all aspects of society, the consequences of disruption become increasingly severe. Thus it is critical to increase the resilience and survivability of the future netwo...
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In the last few decades, image registration (IR) has been established as a very active research area in computer vision. Over the years, it has been applied to a broad range of real-world problems ranging from remote ...
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In the last few decades, image registration (IR) has been established as a very active research area in computer vision. Over the years, it has been applied to a broad range of real-world problems ranging from remote sensing to medical imaging, artificial vision, and computer-aided design. IR has been usually tackled by iterative approaches considering numerical optimization methods which are likely to get stuck in local optima. Recently, a large number of IR methods based on the use of metaheuristics and evolutionary computation paradigms has been proposed providing outstanding results. In this contribution, we aim to develop a preliminary experimental study on some of the most recognized feature-based IR methods considering evolutionary algorithms. To do so, the IR framework is first presented and a brief description of some prominent evolutionary-based IR proposals are reviewed. Finally, a selection of some of the most representative methods are benchmarked facing challenging 3D medical image registration problem instances.
Link failures in wide area networks are common. To recover from such failures, a number of methods such as SONET rings, protection cycles, and source rerouting have been investigated. Two important considerations in s...
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Link failures in wide area networks are common. To recover from such failures, a number of methods such as SONET rings, protection cycles, and source rerouting have been investigated. Two important considerations in such approaches are the recovery time and the needed spare capacity to complete the recovery. Usually, these techniques attempt to achieve a recovery time less than 50 ms. In this paper we introduce an approach that provides link failure recovery in a hitless manner, or without any appreciable delay. This is achieved by means of a method called diversity coding. We present an algorithm for the design of an overlay network to achieve recovery from single link failures in arbitrary networks via diversity coding. This algorithm is designed to minimize spare capacity for recovery. We compare the recovery time and spare capacity performance of this algorithm against conventional techniques in terms of recovery time, spare capacity, and a joint metric called Quality of Recovery (QoR). QoR incorporates both the spare capacity percentages and worst case recovery times. Based on these results, we conclude that the proposed technique provides much shorter recovery times while achieving similar extra capacity, or better QoR performance overall.
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