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PODC
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
MIS on trees
A maximal independent set on a graph is an inclusion-maximal set of mutually non-adjacent nodes. This basic symmetry breaking structure is vital for many distributed algorithms, w...
Christoph Lenzen, Roger Wattenhofer
FOCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Boosting and Hard-Core Sets
This paper connects two fundamental ideas from theoretical computer science: hard-core set construction, a type of hardness amplification from computational complexity, and boosti...
Adam Klivans, Rocco A. Servedio
PODS
2010
ACM
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14 years 15 days ago
Optimal sampling from distributed streams
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
Experimental Supplements to the Theoretical Analysis of EAs on Problems from Combinatorial Optimization
It is typical for the EA community that theory follows experiments. Most theoretical approaches use some model of the considered evolutionary algorithm (EA) but there is also some ...
Patrick Briest, Dimo Brockhoff, Bastian Degener, M...
SUM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Event Modelling and Reasoning with Uncertain Information for Distributed Sensor Networks
CCTV and sensor based surveillance systems are part of our daily lives now in this modern society due to the advances in telecommunications technology and the demand for better sec...
Jianbing Ma, Weiru Liu, Paul Miller