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1996
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
The Linear-Array Conjecture in Communication Complexity is False
A linear array network consists of k + 1 processors P0; P1; : : : ; Pk with links only between Pi and Pi+1 0 i k. It is required to compute some boolean function f x; y in this n...
Eyal Kushilevitz, Nathan Linial, Rafail Ostrovsky
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COCO
2008
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
A Direct Product Theorem for Discrepancy
Discrepancy is a versatile bound in communication complexity which can be used to show lower bounds in the distributional, randomized, quantum, and even unbounded error models of ...
Troy Lee, Adi Shraibman, Robert Spalek
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AAAI
1992
15 years 4 months ago
Inferring Finite Automata with Stochastic Output Functions and an Application to Map Learning
It is often useful for a robot to construct a spatial representation of its environment from experiments and observations, in other words, to learn a map of its environment by exp...
Thomas Dean, Dana Angluin, Kenneth Basye, Sean P. ...
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2003
ACM
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16 years 3 months ago
Work-competitive scheduling for cooperative computing with dynamic groups
The problem of cooperatively performing a set of t tasks in a decentralized setting where the computing medium is subject to failures is one of the fundamental problems in distrib...
Chryssis Georgiou, Alexander Russell, Alexander A....
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ICALP
2005
Springer
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New Approaches for Virtual Private Network Design
Virtual Private Network Design is the following NP-hard problem. We are given a communication network, represented as a weighted graph with thresholds on the nodes which represent...
Friedrich Eisenbrand, Fabrizio Grandoni, Gianpaolo...