Simulated Annealing (SA) is an effective and general form of optimization. It is useful in finding global optima in the presence of large numbers of local optima. “Annealing” refers to an analogy with ...

Yubin Kim is a PhD candidate in the Language Technologies Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Her main research area is information retrieval.

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There will be weekly written assignments, starting in the first week of classes. Each written assignment consists of 1-3 questions that require students to write single paragraph answers. They are ...

GiRaF is a computational tool for identification of reassortments in influenza viruses from sequence databases of isolates. Reassortments in influenza - a process where strains exchange genetic ...

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Research awards: Her research has earned her an Alfred Sloan Fellowship, the 2009 Carnegie Science Center's Emerging Female Scientist Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Best Paper Award, the 2001 UCSB ...

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Linkage are composed of links and lower pairs. The simplest closed-loop linkage is the four-bar linkage, which has three moving links, one fixed link and four pin joints. A linkage with one link fixed ...

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