We study Reader-Writer Exclusion [1], a well-known variant of the Mutual Exclusion problem [2] where processes are divided into two classes–readers and writers–and multiple re...
The need for efficient decentralized recommender systems has been appreciated for some time, both for the intrinsic advantages of decentralization and the necessity of integrating...
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vincent Leroy, Afshin Moin, ...
Abstract. Gradients are distributed distance estimates used as a building block in many sensor network applications. In large or long-lived deployments, it is important for the est...
Jacob Beal, Jonathan Bachrach, Daniel Vickery, Mar...
In a hardware transactional memory system with lazy versioning and lazy conflict detection, the process of transaction commit can emerge as a bottleneck. This is especially true ...
Seth H. Pugsley, Manu Awasthi, Niti Madan, Naveen ...
—Visual categorization is important to manage large collections of digital images and video, where textual metadata is often incomplete or simply unavailable. The bag-of-words mo...
Koen E. A. van de Sande, Theo Gevers, Cees G. M. S...