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FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda
INFOCOM
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Turning Heterogeneity into an Advantage in Overlay Routing
Abstract— Distributed hash table (DHT)-based overlay networks, represented by Pastry, CAN, and Chord, offer an administration-free and fault-tolerant application-level overlay ne...
Zhichen Xu, Mallik Mahalingam, Magnus Karlsson
CIA
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Cryptographic Protocols for Secure Second-Price Auctions
In recent years auctions have become more and more important in the field of multiagent systems as useful mechanisms for resource allocation, task assignment and last but not leas...
Felix Brandt
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
14 years 2 months ago
Continuous Replica Placement schemes in distributed systems
The Replica Placement Problem (RPP) aims at creating a set of duplicated data objects across the nodes of a distributed system in order to optimize certain criteria. Typically, RP...
Thanasis Loukopoulos, Petros Lampsas, Ishfaq Ahmad
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Adopt: asynchronous distributed constraint optimization with quality guarantees
The Distributed Constraint Optimization Problem (DCOP) is able to model a wide variety of distributed reasoning tasks that arise in multiagent systems. Unfortunately, existing met...
Pragnesh Jay Modi, Wei-Min Shen, Milind Tambe, Mak...