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Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products
Securitization of cash flows using financial derivatives transformed the financial industry over the last three decades. Derivatives...
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Liability Issues in Software Engineering: The Use of Formal Methods to Reduce Legal Uncertainties
This paper reports on the results of a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with the aim to put forward a set of methods and tools...
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Technical Perspective: Liability Issues in Software Engineering
The paper by LeMétayer et al. addresses one technical issue in a large and serious problem in the production...
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The Informatics Philharmonic
A system for musical accompaniment is presented in which a computer-driven orchestra follows and learns from a soloist in a concerto-like setting. The system's...
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Technical Perspective: Concerto For Violin and Markov Model
In the opening of Sibelius' Violin Concerto, a soloist plays delicately. The orchestra responds in kind. As...
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DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study
While a large body of work exists on DRAM in lab conditions, little has been reported on real DRAM failures in large production clusters. In this paper, we analyze...
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Technical Perspective: DRAM Errors in the Wild
In order to advance the field, knowledge of the types of memory errors at the system level, their frequencies, and conditions that exacerbate or are unrelated to...
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The Sequence Memoizer
The sequence memoizer is a new hierarchical Bayesian model for discrete sequence data that captures long range dependencies and power-law characteristics, while...
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Technical Perspective: Markov Meets Bayes
The history of probabilistic sequence models dates back to Markov at the turn of the last century. Though informed by decades of research...
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Nonparametric Belief Propagation
Probabilistic graphical models and algorithms for approximate inference have proven to be powerful tools in a wide range of applications in statistics and AI. However...
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Technical Perspective: Belief Propagation
Nearly every modern tracking system is based on the seminal work of Rudolf Kalman who developed the optimal...
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Privacy Integrated Queries: An Extensible Platform For Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis
Privacy Integrated Queries (PINQ) is an extensible data analysis platform designed to provide unconditional privacy guarantees for the records of the underlying...
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Technical Perspective: Programming With Differential Privacy
Government agencies worldwide release statistical information about population, education, and health, crime...
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The Emergence of Cross Channel Scripting
Lightweight, embedded Web servers are soon about to outnumber regular Internet Web servers. We reveal a series of attacks that target...
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Technical Persepctive: Attacks Target Web Server Logic and Prey on XCS Weaknesses
A system is secure only if the entire system is secure. While this may sound obvious, achieving total security throughout a system is rarely trivial when you consider...
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Censored Exploration and the Dark Pool Problem
The success and proliferation of dark pool stock exchanges have created challenging and interesting problems in algorithmic trading—in particular, the problem of...
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Technical Perspective: Learning to Act in Uncertain Environments
The problem of decision making in an uncertain environment arises in many diverse contexts. The key issue in effectively solving problems like this is known as...
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Toward Robotic Cars
Recent challenges organized by DARPA have induced a significant advance in technology for autopilots for cars; similar to those already used in aircraft and marine...
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Technical Perspective: New Bar Set For Intelligent Vehicles
Sebastian Thrun gives us a glimpse into the design and implementation of two winning DARPA grand challenge entries...
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